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THE 



FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 



A DESCRIPTION OF DISEASE AND ITS TREATMENT 

WITH SIXTEEN MEDICAL PRESCRIPTIONS 

MADE PLAIN FOR GENERAL USE 



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J. CLARK SLAY, M. D. 






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INDEX. 



PAGE. 

Fevers ------- 7 

Simple, or Ephemeral Fever 9 

Inflammatory Fever - - - - 11 

Typhoid, or Typhus Fever - - 12 

Gastric, or Bilious Fever - - - 15 
Intermittent, or Malarial Fevers — Chill and 

Fever — iAgue - - - - 17 

Yellow Fever - 19 

Eruptive Fevers ----- 28 

Scarlet Fever _____ 23 

Measles ------- 26 

Small -Pox --__._ 27 

Chicken-Pox ------ 30 

Miliary Fever - 32 

Mettle Rash - - - - - - 33 

LEASES OF THE BRAIN - 35 

Determination of Blood to the Head - 35 
Inflammation of the Brain and its Mem- 
branes ------ 37 

Inflammation of the Spinal Cord and its Mem- 
branes -_-_-_ 4q 
Apoplexv ------- 42 

Palsy _ _ . . . 44 

Tetanus ------- 45 

Delirium Tremens - 47 

Epilepsy ------- 50 

Neuralgia --___- 51 

Headache ------ 52 

The Digestive System - 55 

Toothache ------ 55 

Quinzy ------- 57 

Diphtheria ------ 59 

Mumps ------- 63 

Dyspepsia, or Indigestion 64 



INDEX. 



J 

Constipation ------ 


67 


Hemorrhoids, or Piles -/}---- 


70 


Colic ------- 


74 


Looseness of the Bowels - 


75 


Dysentery ------ 


77 


Cholera Morbus - 


79 


Summer Complaint - - - - 


81 


Inflammation of the Liver - 


83 


Inflammation of the Stomach 


86 


Inflammation of the Bowels 


88 


Inflammation of the Peritoneum 


91 


Invermination. Worms - 


93 


The Respiratory System - 


97 


Catarrh, or Common Cold - 


97 


Influenza ------ 


100 


Croup - - - - - 


102 


Cough ------- 


105 


Ho )pingcough - 


107 


Bronchitis _.---- 


110 


Lungs ------- 


113 


Pleurisy ------- 


116 


Hemorrhage 


118 


Consumption - 


121 


Asthma - - - - - 


125 


Circulating System - . 


129 


Heart Disease ------ 


129 


Palpitation of the Heart - 


131 


Angina ------- 


133 


Pectoris ------ 


133 


Urinary and Genital Organs - 


138 


Kidneys ------ 


138 


Bladder -------- 


140 


Difficulty in Discharging the Urine 


142 


Incontinence of Urine 


144 


Bright's Disease of the Kidneys - 


145 


Diabetes - - 


146 



INDEX. 

PAGE 

Cutaneous Diseases - 149 

Inflammation of the Skin - . - - 149 

Vesicular and Pustular Eruptions - 151 

St. Anthony's Fire - - 153 

Itch ------- 155 

Boil - - - - - - - - 156 

Carbuncle - - - - - - 157 

Felon. Run-around - 159 

Diseases Peculiar to Females - - 161 

Chlorosis - - - - - - 161 

Suppression of the Menses - - - 163 

Painful Menstruation - - - - 165 

Profuse Menses ----- 167 

Hemorrhage from the Womb - - 168 

Inflammation of the Ovaries - - 171 

Leucorrhoea, or Whites - - - 173 

Pregnancy ------ 175 

Derangements during Pregnancy - - 181 

Child Birth - - - - - - 186 

Diseases op the System in General - - 188 

Rheumatism - 188 
Gout - - - - - -191 

Lumbago ------ 193 

Sciatica ------- 194 

Inflammation of the Eyes - - 196 

Inflammation of the Ears— Earache - - 198 

Bleeding of the Nose - - - - 199. 

Dropsy ------.-• 201 

Scurvy ------ 203 

Scrofula ------- 204 

Casualties ------ 207 

Concussion of the Brain - 207 

Sprains and Strains - - 209 

Wounds ------- 210 

Burns and Scalds - 213 

Overheat ------- 215 

Apparent Death ----- 216 

Poisons and their Antidotes - 218 



INTRODUCTORY. 



Realizing that a large and very im- 
portant part of medical practice is, and 
must always remain in the hands of the 
people, hence the need for a plain guide 
to direct the successful treatment of those 
diseases which they have so long felt, 
though labored unsuccessfully to accom- 
plish, must be apparent to all; also one to 
direct the proper way to begin the treat- 
ment of diseases of a more serious nature, 
and its continuance when every thing is 
progressing favorably, and a good medical 
attendant is not readily at hand. Such a 
guide is claimed for this manual. 

Already we are beginning to meet 
amateur physicians, especially among the 
ladies in their own families, of no mean 
repute, and with the assistance that a 
plain guide offers, they will often be en- 
abled to accomplish, being upon the spot, 
what we would fail to accomplish, making 
our appearance four, six or ten hours 
later. 



INTRODUCTORY. 

Eleven-twelfths of all diseases are 
cured promptly when proper assistance is 
rendered at once, while the majority of 
aggravated and fatal cases can be traced 
to early neglect, so if there were no 
further use for this manuel than in cases 
of emergency, or the treatment of diseases 
of a mild nature, it would then fill a long- 
felt want. More than this, however, is 
claimed for it. Its description of diseases 
and its treatment with sixteen tried and 
trusted prescriptions — as many or prob- 
ably more than the ordinary physician 
makes use of. are so plain and unvar- 
nished that the average reader can not 
fail to understand, and if but little time 
is given to its study, diseases of a more 
serious nature can be successfully treated. 

It has been the endeavor to treat each 
disease, or each stage of disease, with a 
single prescription, and in the majority 
of instances it has been accomplished, 
but in some complicated cases the alter- 
nation of two or more remedies has had 
to be resorted to. It has also been the 
ondeavor to give such practical and useful 
advice in relation to diet, dress and mode 
of living, as space would admit, and if 



INTRODUCTORY. 

proper respect is paid in this direction, 
the failure to get well will not have to be 
so often recorded. 

Great care has been taken in the 
preparation of these prescription to in- 
sure their preservation for any length 
of time; also every effort made to 
reduce their quantity still to retain their 
original strength and medical virtue. In 
this latter particular success has attended 
the effort beyond expectation, still the 
quantity remains something more than 
desired. 

A number of these medicines are of 
recent discovery, and are found to possess 
great curative strength, while the others 
are the same as are daily prescribed by~ 
leading physicians, with probably some 
slight differences in their combinations. 

Each prescription is designated by 
some letter of the alphabet as a means of 
simplicity, To give names derived from 
the medicine would be both lengthy and 
unwieldy. Two directions will be noticed 
upon nearly every prescription; headed? 
Acute and Chronic — it will also be noticed 
at the same time that the amount of 
medicine taken in twenty -four hours from 



INTRODUCTORY. 

•either direction is about the same — and 
the reason for this, long experience has 
taught that the majority of medicine 
taken in small and often repeated doses 
are decidedly more prompt in their cura- 
tive action. This is true of chronic as 
well as acute affections, but whereas, it 
is neither troublesome or easily forgotten 
to take medicine often in acute trouble, 
when there is a good deal of suffering, in 
chronic affections, it grows very monot- 
onous, troublesome and can not be remem- 
bered, consequently furnishing the patient 
with a satisfactory excuse to himself to 
let them alone. 

While it is no intention of this manuel 
to usurp the place of any good physician, 
for on the contrary it frequently advises 
his being sommoned even in cases where 
but little danger is apprehended either by 
the patient or his friends, it does claim 
that his presence is a rare necessity if its 
instructions are properly carried out. As 
lias before been said its object is to di- 
rect the successful treatment of those 
diseases which the people have so long 
labored unsuccessfully to accomplish, 
and to be resorted to in cases of emer- 



INTRODUCTORY. 

gency, and also to direct the treatment of 
diseases of a serious nature when a good 
physician is not at hand While it fre- 
quently advises the summoning of a phy- 
sician, sooner, however, than call an 
indifferent one, it as strongly advises 
sole reliance in the treatment herein laid 
down. 




FEVERS. 

(Febris.) 



Probably no form of disease has so 
much engaged the attention of physicians 
or given rise to a greater variety of 
speculations than Fever. Some writers 
consider Fever and Inflammation as 
synonymous terms, others as mere modi- 
fications of the same diseased state of the 
system. The studj^ is one possessing 
great interest to physicians, but to the 
sufferer the comfort of having the remedy 
of relief within his grasp, is far more in- 
teresting than the discussion of theories. 

Space will not permit us to enter into 
any of the theories respecting Fever and 
Inflammation, although we cannot but 
render the tribute of our admiration to 
the learned men who have devoted so 
much of their time and energies to the 
elucidation of this important subject, 
since every new disease discovered serves 
to throw light upon the medicinal action 
of medicines. 



8 FEVERS. 

In all forms of acute disease, Fever is 
present, and the symptoms common to 
most forms, are, at first, a feeling of cold- 
ness or shivering, then heat, accelera- 
ted pulse, thirst, restlessness and lan- 
guor. These, and other symptoms, may 
continue more or less severe, and for a 
longer or shorter time, according to the 
nature of the Fever, and finally a crisis 
declares itself, frequently by diarrhea* 
nose-bleed, or by an eruption, but most 
generally by perspiration more or less 
profuse. Fever also, possesses the pro- 
perty of passing from one species into 
another. Thus inflammatory Fever may 
by a strong febrifuge be altered into a 
low typhus, or on the other hand, a sim- 
ple Fever by injudicious treatment may 
be changed into an inflammatory one ; 
and that again assume the intermittent 
form; also one attack may present all these 
different phases. 

Fevers have been differently classified 
by various medical writers. We shall 
treat of simple and inflammatory fevers, 
typhus and gastric or bilious fevers, in- 
termittent and yellow fevers, and then 
eruptive fevers, such as, scarlet fever, 
measles, &c> 



ephemeral. 9 

General Treatment and Diet in 
Fevers. — Perfect rest should be enjoined, 
both mental and bodily. Pure air and 
cool apartments. Feather beds should 
be discarded for mattrasses when practi- 
cable. The bed clothes should be light 
but sufficient. 

The thirst present in Fevers is nature's 
voice calling for fluid. Water is the best 
diluent, and will do no one harm when 
judiciously used. No solid food, broth, 
or even gruel and the like, should be per- 
mitted in cases where the Fever runs 
excessively high. Toast water, or weak 
barley, or rice water, sweetened with a 
little sugar, or syrup of berries may be 
allowed when the Fever is somewhat 
abated, though then we must still care- 
fully avoid incurring the risk of a relapse. 
Good ripe fruits are generally allowable 
in most forms of Fever unattended with 
diarrhea. 

SIMPLE OR EPHEMERAL FEVER. 
(Mbris Simplex.) 

This form of Fever seldom presents any 
strong characteristics, and generally runs 
its course in a few hours, even though no 



10 FEVERS. 

treatment be made use of. As, however,, 
it frequently is the beginning of disorders 
of a serious nature, it deserves attention. 
Preceding attacks of scarlet fever r 
measles, small-pox, &c, it is generally 
present, though occasionally manifest- 
ing itself as a distinct affection. It gen- 
erally begins with a slight chill or shiver- 
ing, followed by heat, dry skin, restless- 
ness, thirst, accelerated pulse, general 
uneasiness and lassitude. 

Treatment. — in this form of Fever r 
prescription 'F' will, in nearly every in- 
stance, promptly relieve. By following 
direction closely a gentle perspiration 
will soon follow with a speedy dissipation 
of all the symptoms, if it be simple Fever 
properly so called, and if it be the fore- 
runner of any more severe affection, 
either at once check its further progress 
or materially mitigate its malignancy. 
The very few cases that do not readily 
yield to this prescription alone are 
promptly relieved by alternating prescrip- 
tions 'F' and 'G\ We resort to this treat- 
ment only when 'F' alone fails. 



INFLAMMATORY. 11 

INFLAMMATORY FEVER. 

(Febris Syiiochalis.) 

Inflammatory Fevers are characterized 
by rigors, folio wed by burning heat; pulse 
strong, hard and greatly accelerated, 
dryness of the skin, mouth, lips and 
tongue; great thirst, hurried breathing, 
urine scanty, and bowels constipated. 

The above are the prominent symptoms 
met with in Inflammatory Fevers, sub- 
ject to fluctuations, generally worse in 
the evening and at night, and better after 
midnight and towards morning. 

This form of Fever runs an irregular 
course, rarely exceeding fourteen days, 
and is peculiarly apt, if not carefully 
looked after, to run into typhus or fix 
upon some important vital organ. When 
properly treated, however, at any stage 
it progresses regularly to a crisis which 
shows itself generally in profuse perspira- 
tion but sometimes in diarrhea or nose- 
bleed. 

Treatment. — Here, as in all forms of 
acute Fever with hot, dry skin, quick 
pulse, hurried breathing and great thirst, 
drescription '¥' should be first thought of. 



12 FEVERS. 

and the few cases that can not be entirely 
relieved by it, will be very materially im- 
proved by its use. 

Prescription 'G' is also a useful remedy 
in Fevers when there is a full, bounding 
or throbing pulse, with a determination 
of blood to the head; red face, staring 
eyes, sleeplessness, and a general sensa- 
tion of throbing or pulsating through the 
entire body. 

When the symptoms met with are 
found under prescription '¥' and 'G\ these 
two remedies act well in alternation. 

Prescription 'I' is a valuable remedy in 
low forms of Fever with a tendancy to 
gastric or stomach derangements. In 
cases when the Fever has been somewhat 
reduced and should show a disposition to 
linger in a low form this remedy quietly 
completes the cure. 

TYPHOID OR TYPHUS FEVER. 

(Febris Nervosa.) 

Typhoid rarely sets in with such marked 
symptoms as announce the approach of 
inflammatory fevers ; instead of chills or 
shiverings, we first find a complaint of 
general uneasiness, lassitude and indiffer- 



TYPUS. 13 

ence. The patient .either complains but 
little, or of pains in his head, chest and ab- 
domen, and frequently an unusual degree 
of drowsiness is present. After repeated 
alternations of cold and heat, a sensation 
of coldness is complained of by the 
patient, while to those around him he 
appears hot ; the extremities, however, 
upon examination are found cold. The 
pulse varies, sometimes full and soft, and 
then quick and weak ; fever usually, not 
so high, always increased in the evening, 
and decreased in the morning. Great 
weakness and prostration of the entire 
system. The tongue at first moist, be- 
comes thickly coated, dark, dry and 
tremulous. If the disease is allowed to 
gain ground, all these symptoms increase 
in malignancy, the evacuations become 
involuntary, delirium supervenes, and 
the weakness and lassitude excessive. 

This form of fever runs a slow course, 
lasting often from fourteen to twenty-one 
days, and even longer in badly managed 
cases. 

Treatment. — At the earliest symptoms 
of this disease,if prescription ; B'be admin- 
istered, its further development will often 



14 FEVERS. 

be prevented, or the attack rendered 
much more mild. It is also specially 
indicated in any stage of the disease 
where the suffering seems to be confined 
principally, to the head, pain across the 
forehead and in the temples with a feeling 
as if the head would burst ; frequent rais- 
ing the hands to the head even though 
delirious ; foul, thickly coated, yellow 
tongue, or dry, cracked tongue, with 
parched mouth, and great thirst. 

Prescription T is probably our best 
remedy in the the treatment of Typhoid 
Fever, and particularly so when the 
greatest suffering is experienced in the 
abdomen. Many cases have been treated 
from the beginning to a successful termi- 
nation with this prescription alone. Its 
special indications are low fever, quick, 
weak pulse ; sensativeness of the abdo- 
men to pressure with a tendancy to 
loose evacuations, and great prostration 
of strength. 

Prescription T>' is also a very useful 
remedy when gastric or bilious symptoms 
are present ; constipation with ineffectual 
effort to evacuate the bowels, general 
nervous excitability ; restlessness, sleep- 
lessness and slight dilerium. 



GASTRIC. 15 

It is difficult to give rules of diet ap- 
plicable to all cases. When high fever is 
present, the same abstinence, however, 
should be enjoined as already noticed 
under fevers, but in low forms of pro- 
tracted fevers, the strength must be kept 
up. This can be done only by judicious 
feeding, the greatest care be taken to 
prevent over tasking the digestive func- 
tion. 

GASTRIC OR BILIOUS FEVER. 



This is a form of Fever in which, as its 
name implies, the digestive organs are 
chiefly affected. The following are the 
principal symptoms of Gastric Fever; 
sensation of fulness and weight in the 
stomach, flatulent distention of the 
abdomen with inclination to vomit; 
eructations of offensive flatus and some- 
times vomiting of the ingesta and tena- 
cious mucus mixed with bile, thickly fur- 
red, dirty yellow tongue, abdomen soft, 
bowels constipated, but in the advanced 
stage of the disease the evacuations are 
often loose, offensive and contain por- 
tions of undigested food, frontal headach, 
languor, sickly and distressed expression 



16 FEVERS. 

of countenance, more or less chilliness, 
heat and dryness of the skin; pulse quick, 
soft, and sometimes irregular; urine 
thick, cloudy and dark colored. When 
the bilious symptoms predominate all the 
symptoms appear in an aggravated form, 
the heat of the skin is very considerable, 
the restlessness and thirst excessive (the 
patient expressing a constant desire for 
acid drinks) which do no harm when 
sparingly used. 

Treatment. — When this Fever is clear- 
ly traceable to high living, too free 
indulgence in rich food, wines or liquors. 
Prescription 'D' is probably oftener indi- 
cated than any other remedy, and when 
in connection with the above there is 
fulness, distention and tenderness of 
the abdoman with bitter eructations, 
nausea and vomiting, and also, when 
there is constipation, red urine, with brick 
dust colored sediment, it can be adminis- 
tered with great confidence. 

Prescription 'B 7 is, however, more to be 
relied upon in the treatment of Bilious 
Fevers than any other one remedy. Its 
special indications are: headache, burn- 
ing or expansive, tongue dry and red; or 



INTERMITTENT. 17 

covered with a coated whitish-yellow fur, 
aversion to even the smell of food, crav- 
ing for acid drinks; great thirst, insipid, 
clammy, bitter taste, nausea and vomit- 
ing of bile, tenderness and a sensation of 
swelling of the stomach, bowels consti- 
pated, stools dark, dry and hard. 

Prescription 'L 5 is also a very important- 
remedy in this Fever, sometimes restor- 
ing patients when seemingly beyond the 
reach of hope. The chief indications for 
its employment are : extreme prostration 
of strength, dull and glassy eyes, bitter 
taste, inclination to vomit, bursting head- 
ache, delirium, dry, hot skin, pulse 
scarcely perceptible. 

Intermittent or Malarial Fevers — Chill 
and Fever — Ague. 



This class of Fevers is strongly charac- 
terized, by the simplicity of their form, 
the periodicity of the different stages, and 
the uncertainly of their duration. 

A chill, followed by heat and terminat- 
ing by perspiration, are the three stages 
that constitute a paroxysm, after which, 
for a certain period the patient is gen- 
erally free from suffering. These periods 



18 FEVERS. 

are generally of definite duration, the 
paroxysms returning at regular inter- 
vals of twenty-four, forty-eight, or seven- 
ty-two hours, and in some instances the 
interval is even longer. 

These Fevers are exceedingly indefinite 
in duration, and frequently assume a 
chronic form. An individual once at- 
tacked with Ague is frequently liable to 
a return in after life if the disease has 
not" been radically cured at the com- 
mencement, nay more, any attacks of 
disease he may be hereafter subjected to 
are peculiarly apt to assume the intermit- 
tent form. 

Treatment. — During a paroxysm a 
few doses of prescription'F'will hasten its 
course, and very materially modify and 
lessen the severity of the Fever. The 
evening following the attack, when retir- 
ing, take a dose of the pills from prescrip- 
tion 'A', say four, and on the following 
morning begin with prescription 'L'taking 
a half teaspoonful in a wine glass of 
water every three hours until the parox- 
ysms fail to make their appearance. It 
will be well to remember the day of the 
last chill and seven days thereafter take 



YELLOW. 19 

for one day, from the same prescription 
following the same directions. The dose 
of pills can also be repeated the third 
night from the first dose. 

This treatment strictly carried out has 
never failed us. 

YELLOW FEVER. 



This is a disease of warm climates, and 
derives its name from the color frequently 
given to the skin of those affected byit. It 
is generally preceded by sudden debility 
and restlessness, which are soon followed 
by headache, giddiness, faintness and 
slight chilliness, to which is added oppres- 
sion, want of appetite and deranged 
digestion. Immediately after the cold 
stage or chilliness, violent reaction sets in 
announced by a high degree of fever with 
great heat of skin, strong throbbing pulse, 
and determination of blood to the head ; 
violent vomiting first of bilious and sub- 
sequently of brownish black matter which 
is also passed by stool. The respiration 
is hurried, and often laborious ; the tongue 
white-furrid, and sometimes red, but 
soon becomes parched and dark colored ; 
excessive sensability of the stomach to 



20 FEVERS. 

pressure, irritable from the first, is ren- 
dered so much so as the disease advances 
that every thing taken into it is almost 
immediately rejected with a quantity of 
bilious matter. Severe darting pains 
traverse the head, the small of the back, 
and even extend down the thighs. The 
pulse is subject to variations, being in 
some cases quick and strong, in others 
quick, low and irregular; the urine is 
suppressed or scanty and offensive: the 
stools have likewise a disagreeable fetor. 

The above are the general symptoms 
and course of the average case of Yellow- 
Fever, but in some cases the seizure is 
sudden and unattended by premonitory 
symptoms, and the course of the disease 
exceedingly rapid, and a fatal termination 
not unfrequently within thirty-six hours. 

The importance of cleanliness, in so con- 
tagious and serious a disease, is perfectly 
apparent. All discharges and soiled linen 
must be quickly removed and disinfected, 
and the air kept as fresh and pure as 
possible. 

Treatment. — Prescription 'L' is a most 
excellent remedy to begin the treatment 
of Yellow Fever, and should be continued 



YELLOW. 21 

so long as there are signs of improvement. 
It is indicated when the fever, heat and 
shivering appear simultaneously, or 
when we find cold internally with heat, 
or when the heat is a burning character. 
It is also indicated by great restlessness 
with marked prostration of strength; 
severe burning pains in the stomach, 
and nausea and vomiting of bilious mat- 
ter, great thirst, which is appeased only 
by drinking often, and but little at a 
Urne. 

Prescription 'B' is called for when there 
is continuous, violent delirium with ex- 
cessive heat; fowl thickly coated, dark, 
drj% cracked tongue; nausea and vomiting 
of bilious or brownish black matter, 
stomach extremely irritable and sensi- 
tive to pressure; constipation or relaxed 
stool of brownish black matter, urine of a 
deep-orange or a bright yellow color; 
frequently profuse perspiration during 
the fever. 

Prescription T should be given when 
-the fever assumes the typhoid character; 
low fever with extreme prostration, flatu- 
lent distention of the abdomen with a 
tendency to loose evacuation. 



22 FEVERS. 

The diet should be plain and simple, 
toast bread, crackers,milk, arrowroot and 
the like in the first and second stages of 
the disease. In the third and last 
stage of prostration and the beginning of 
convalescence, it may be necessary to 
give ice cream, beef tea, wine, whey, &c. 



ERUPTIVE FEVERS. 



Under this head we shall consider those 
diseases possessing the common property 
of febril symptoms, preceding an erup- 
tion which is present during a part of 
their course, such as, scarlet fever, mea- 
sles, small-pox, chicken-pox, miliary 
fever and nettle-rash. 

SCARLET FEVER. 



This affection in its simple form con- 
sists of a contageous fever with a swell- 
ing of the face and a scarlet appearance 
of the skin (hence its name.) 

At the present day, however, we sel- 
dom meet with it in so simple a form, but 
more frequently complicated with severe 
or ulcerated sore throat ;violent inflamma- 
tory or congestive symptoms and fre 
quently with more or less deviation from 
the scarlet appearance of the skin above 
described. As a general thing the disease 
sets in with a chill or repeated chilly sen- 



24 FEVERS. 

sations. followed by heat, headache, nau- 
sea, vomiting, and a feeling of prostra- 
tion. The pulse ranges from one hundred 
and twenty to one hundred and thirty 
beats per minute. This is quite charac- 
teristic of Scarlet Fever, as no other dis- 
eas, shows such rapid increase of fever. 
Besides the above symptoms, the patient 
commences to complain of sore throat, 
dryness and burning, and pain when 
swallowing, and in the course of one or 
more days the eruption appears of the 
color mentioned, in large indifinitely 
marked patches gradually growing paler 
towards their margins, and often over- 
spreading entire limbs with a uniform 
color. These symptoms continue with 
more or less severity for five or six days 
when the eruption begins to disappear, 
the skin pealing off in quite large pieces, 
and complete recovery takes place in 
about three weeks. 

Treatment. — When the Fever in this 
affection assumes clearly an inflamma- 
tory type and the pulse runs high, we 
begin the treatment with prescription ; F ? 
which, as a general thing, will reduce the 
Fever and quickness of the pulse in a few 



SCARLET. 25 

hoars. Prescription 'G' should be admin- 
istered as soon as the throat and tongue 
become affected with dryness and burn- 
ing and there is a desire but almost com- 
plete inability to swallow; also when the 
throat is of a bright red color, or covered 
with white specks, or, later in the disease, 
dark red patches, and also when the ton- 
sils are swollen and the tongue of a bright 
red hue, and delirum is present. 

Prescriptions 'F' and k G' alternate well 
when both are indicated. 

Prescription 'PT is also a very useful 
remedy in this affection when derange- 
ment of the stomach and digestive organs 
is a prominent symptom, with alterna- 
tions of constipation and diarrhea,the face 
pale, red or bloated, pains in the bowels 
with a good deal of shivering, disposition 
fretful or melancholy. 

To rub the body with some oily sub- 
stance, as for instance, the fat part of 
smoked ham, to relieve the terrible burn- 
ing and itching, has been recommended 
with good effect. 



36 FEVERS. 

MEASLES. 
(Rubiola>) 



This affection commences with symp- 
toms of a cold, sneezing, watering and 
slight redness of the eyes, dry, hoarse 
cough, and a degree of fever more or less 
marked, preceedmg the eruption three or 
four days, and generally continuing as 
long after. The eruption appears first 
upon the face and neck, and gradually 
•extends down over the rest of the body 
and consists in numerous roundish lentil 
sized red spots. In six or seven days 
from the time of sickening, the eruption 
begins to turn pale on the face, and after- 
wards on the rest of the body, and gen- 
erally disappears entirely about the ninth 
day with a bran-like desquamation. 

This complaint generally reigns as an 
infectious epidemic, and for the most 
part confines its attacks to children, in 
which case it is seldom, when properly 
"treated, either severe or dangerous. When, 
Tiowever, it attacks adults it generally 
runs a more severe course. 

Treatment. — There is no better remedy 
to begin the treatment of Measles than 



SMALL-POX. 27" 

prescription 'F', and should be continued, 
until the eruption is fully established. 

Prescription 'H' should be administered: 
as soon as the eruption declares itself, 
and in most instances is sufficient to com- 
plete the cure. 

Prescription 'G' may be necessary in 
some rare cases of confluent measles, 
where the throat seems to be much af - 
fected. 

SMALL-POX. 

(Variola.) 



This disease is frequently very sudden 
in its attacks, commencing with chilli- 
ness and shivering, followed by fever, 
headache, pains in the small of the back 
and loins, langour, weariness and faint- 
ness, oppression of the chest and acute 
pains in the pit of the stomach, increased 
by pressure. Catarrhal symptoms, as 
sneezing, coughing, wheezing and diffi- 
cult breathing often accompany this 
affection. The eruption makes its ap- 
pearance at the close of the third day,, 
first on the face, hairy scalp, neck, and 
afterwards over the whole body, and 
displays itself in the shape of small,. 



28 FEVERS. 

liard pointed, red elevations, which in 
about three days present a vessicular 
appearance and become depressed in the 
centre as they enlarge. About the sixth 
or eight day, pus forms in the pustules 
and the depression in the centre disap- 
pears. When the pustules have attained 
their full development they generally 
burst, in mild cases emitting an opaque 
lymph which dries into a crust and falls 
off, whilst in severe cases we find a dis- 
charge of purif orm matter forming scabs 
and sores which leave on healing, perma- 
nent marks or pits. General clearing up 
of the eruption begins about the eighth 
or fourteenth day according as the pus- 
tules may have been distinct or confluent. 
In confluent Small-Pox, when the pus- 
tules run together, all the symptoms are 
more severe; the fever runs higher, the 
pains in the stomach, back, and difficult 
breathing are more complained of, and in 
children the eruption is frequently pre- 
ceded by convulsions and delirium. 

Treatment. — We have yet to learn of 
the remedy that will reduce fever, lessen 
the pulse, and bring to the surface the 
eruption so nicely as prescription 'F' does 



SMALL-POX. 29* 

in any eruptive fever. It is our first 
thought and reliance until the eruption is 
clearly established. This remedy is also* 
useful at any stage of the affection wheix 
the fever runs high. 

Prescription 'G' follows our first named 
prescription well for the first two or three 
days of the eruption, and especially if 
head symptoms have set in, characterized 
by flushed face, intolerance of the eyes 
to light, headache, delirium, great thirst, 
nausea and vomiting, or when there i& 
redness of the tongue, abdomen swollen 
and painful to pressure. Prescription 'B 
follows 'G' very nicely about the third day 
of the eruption, and, as a general thing 
can be continued until the eruption begins 
to disappear. This remedy is particularly 
indicated when the pains are of a rheu- 
matic character; oppression and pains in 
the chest, bitter taste, foul tongue, head- 
ache and constipation. 

Prescription '0' comes in splendidly' 
during the clearing up of the eruption and 
the completing of the cure, and should 
always be resorted to. 

The diet should be plain and of a cool- 
ing nature, and regulated by the severity 



30 FEVERS. 

of the attack. Feeding should be spar- 
ingly done at all times, and particularly 
so if the fever runs high. All beverages 
should be cold. Cool and fresh air are 
our best auxiliaries. So beneficial is cool 
air found in this malady that taking a 
child to an open window when attacked 
with convulsions, will generally be found 
rfco afford immediate relief. Great cleanli- 
ness must also be observed, and the linen 
frequently changed. 

When the vesicles declare themselves 
and begin to form into pustules, the room 
ought to be kept as dark as possible to aid 
in preventing the risk of disfigurement, a 
precaution deducible from common ex- 
perience, since we find that the parts of 
the frame exposed to the action of light 
are always those most strongly marked 
by the ravages of the disease. 

CHICKEN-POX. 

(Varicella.) 



This is a disease bearing considerable 
resemblance to Small-pox, but much more 
mild in its course, and shorter in its dura- 
tion, generally requiring but little treat- 



CHICKEN-POX. 31 

iment, but rarely becoming dangerous 
^except when the lungs or brain become 
involved. 

When this affection attacks an indivi- 
dual during the prevalence of small-pox, 
which is not unfrequently the case, it is 
often mistaken for that disease, but it 
soon discloses its real character by the 
rapidity with which the eruption declares 
itself; the pustules (in many instances 
closely resembling those of the small-pox) 
being generally fully matured by the 
third day, and the whole eruption disap- 
pearing at the end of the fourth or fifth 
day, without leaving any marks. The 
Fever, however, in some cases runs quite 
high for the first two or three days. 

Treatment. — Here, as in the first 
stages of the preceding Fevers, we give 
prescription'F',and in most cases need no 
other remedy to complete the cure. If, 
however, the brain should show signs of 
becoming affected, a few doses of pre- 
scription 'G ? will be needed and, if chest 
symptoms should develope themselves, a 
few doses of prescription 'B' will be re- 
quired. 



32 FEVERS. 

MILIARY FEVER. 
{Miliaria.) 



This affection consists principally of a 
great number of exceedingly small, red 
pimples, which are soon converted into 
white visicles, afterwards become opaque 
and end in scurf. They are irregularly 
scattered, of the size of millet seed, and 
when the hand is passed over the cutane- 
ous surface, a sensation is felt as if caused 
by small grains of sand beneath the sur- 
face. 

This, like other cutaneons affections of 
the same nature, is generally preceded 
by f ebril symptoms, the eruption appear- 
ing on the fifth or six day; and from the 
commencement of the Fever we frequent- 
ly find profuse sour smelling perspiration. 
Previous to the eruption declaring itself T 
there is experienced a tingling or itching, 
and occasionally a sensation of burning of 
the skin, together with a numbness of the 
extremities. 

The premonitory indications of the ap- 
proach of this affection are oppression of 
the chest, sometimes with short dry cough 
and stitches in the side, low spirits, 



NETTLE-RASH. 33 

^excessive anxiety, extreme restlessness, 
sighing, violent palpitation of the heart, 
irregular pulse, and emissions of a quan- 
tity of clear colorless urine. 

Treatment. — Prescription 'F ? is the 
remedy to lessen the Fever and bring to 
the surface the eruption. 

Prescription 'G' is indicated when there 
is a good deal of fulness about the head, 
with symptoms of delirium, full bounding 
pulse, dry cough, sensativeness of the 
eyes to light, and scanty eruption. 

Prescription 'D' is a valuable remedy 
when the stomach seems to be at fault, 
headache, coated tongue, constipation 
and other symptoms of gastric or stomach 
derangements. 

NETTLE-RASH. 
( Urticaria*) 



This eruption is brought to the surface 
by various causes, not unfrequently aris- 
ing from indigestion, caused by the use 
•of improper articles of food. Before the 
eruption discloses itself the patient is af- 
fected with restlessness, languor, oppres- 
sion and want of appetite; derangement 
of the digestive functions, and fever. 



34 NETTLE RASH. 

When the eruption breaks out the above 
symptoms become relieved, but consider- 
able suffering arises from heat and itch- 
ing, sometimes accompanied with swel- 
ling of the parts affected. 

The rash consists of spots or wheals. 
• flat or prominent, and of a dull white 
color like the sting of a nettle, or more 
red than the surrounding skin; disappear- 
ing in warmth and reappearing when 
exposed to cold; evolving suddenly and 
constantly changing their situations. 

Treatment. — If this rash is attended 
with much fever, we give prescription k F' 
until it is considerably abated. Prescrip- 
tion 'D' is probably the most successful 
remedy in curing Nettle-rash, especially 
when it can be traced to indigestion. 
Prescription 'IF is also a valuable remedy 
in this affection. When the trouble is not 
relieved by either this or the above reme- 
dy alone, a cure is quickly affected by 
alternating the two. 



DISEASES OF THE BRAIN 

AND NERVOUS SYSTEM. 



Determination of Blood to the Head. 
(Congestio ad Caput) 

This is an affection brought on generally 
t)y sedentary habits, intense mental ap- 
plication, or the too free use of spiritous 
liquors; also other stimulating liquids, 
such as, strong coffee, &c. are frequently 
its exciting causes, particularly in those 
who inherit a predisposition to the disor- 
der. This affection is frequently met 
with in ladies, particularly in young girls, 
due to scanty or suppressed menstruation. 
The prominent symptoms are heat, red- 
ness and turgidity or palor and puffiness 
of the face, with anxious expression of 
countenance, fullness of the vessels of 
the head and neck, the pulsations of 
which the patient experiences through 
the entire frame; repeated attacks of gid- 
diness, particularly after eating, sleeping, 



36 BRAIN. 

or sitting in a warm confined apartment, 
or on exposure to the rays of the sun when 
exercising in the open air; headache 
generally above the orbits, and in the 
forehead, increased by stooping; dimness 
of vision, buzzing in the ears, tightness 
around the throat, and difficult breathing 
at times; furred, red, pointed, or elon- 
gated and very red looking tongue; dis- 
turbed and unref reshing sleep, drowsiness 
in the daytime, dyspepsia and bowles 
constipated. 

Treatment. — Prescription 'D'is proba- 
bly our best remedy in this affection, and 
particularly so when the stomach and 
bowels are at fault, want of appetite, poor 
digestion and bowels constipated. This 
remedy is also the more strongly indi- 
cated when the cause for the trouble can 
be traced to sedentary habits, want of ex- 
ercise, or the too free indulgence in 
stimulants. 

Prescription 'G' is a most excellent 
remedy in this affection when the head 
symptoms are very acute; fullness and 
throbing of the vessels of the neck and 
head; red face, staring eyes, anxious 
expression of countenance, difficult 



BRAIN. 37 

breathing, and throbing pulsations felt 
through the body. 

Prescription 'H' is a valuable remedy 
when the trouble is due to the suppres- 
sion of some discharge. In females with 
painful, scanty, or suppressed menstrua- 
tion, there is no better medicine. 

The diet should be plain and sparingly 
used of good easily digested food. Stim- 
ulants of all kinds should be carefully 
avoided. Early rising and daily exercise 
in the open air must not be neglected, 
and too much mental work must not be 
indulged in. 

Inflammation of the Brain and Its 

Membranes. 

{Phrenitis. Encephalitis ,) 

In inflammation of the brain, or its mem- 
branes, the symptoms are exceedingly 
diversified; the extent and duration of 
the disease, the age, the sex and consti- 
tution of the patient, all combine to give 
to the affection a variety of character. 

Occasionally the attack is preceded by 
premonitory symptoms, such as, conges- 
tion of blood to the head, attended with 
weight, or stupefying, pressive, constric- 
2 



38 BRAIN. 

tion and sometimes shooting pains in the 
head. In some instances slight feverish 
symptoms are complained of, with ring- 
ing in the ears for a time previous to the 
attack. When the membranes are af- 
fected the pain is more acute than that 
arising from the substance of the brain. 
Paralysis, however, more frequently ac- 
companies the latter affection. The 
pupils in the first stage of the disease, are 
commonly found more, or less contracted, 
but, as the disease advances, they often 
become dilated. The eyes for a time have 
a brilliant and animated expression, but 
soon grow blood-shot, with fiery redness 
of the face and violent delirium. The 
pulse is very variable in the course of the 
same day; it may be regular, intermittent, 
quick and weak, or very slow and strong. 
The patient frequently complains of heat 
in the head, whereas the extremities are 
cold. When there is stupor, or tendency 
to it, the eyes look heavy and void of all 
expression; vomiting at this stage some- 
times sets in and often proves very in- 
tractable; the stupor, if the disease is not 
arrested, bec3m.es more profound, convul- 
sions appear, and death sooner or later 
ensues. 



BRAIN. 39 

Treatment: — Prescription 'F' should be 
given at the commencement of the attack 
when the skin is hot and "dry, and the 
pulse rapid, with the ordinary indications 
of Inflammatory Fever. 

Prescription 'G' is by far the best rem- 
edy known in the treatment of this affec- 
tion, and if timely resorted to, stupor, 
convulsions, and death will rarely be met 
with. The most prominent symptoms 
calling for its administration are, great 
heat of the head with cold extremi- 
ties; throbing pulsations felt through 
the head, neck, and chest; redness and 
bloatedness of the face; eyes red and 
sparkling with extreme sensibility to 
light; wild expression with violent deli- 
rium. 

Prescription 'W will frequently be found 
of great efficacy in children, and also in 
the few cases that prescription 'G' fails to 
benefit 



40 SPINAL, CORD. 

Inflammation of the Spinal Cord and Its 

Membranes, 
{Myelitis. 'Meningitis Spinalis.) 



This is an affection characterized by 
pain, more or less severe, in some cases, 
of an intermittent character, either con- 
fined to the lower, middle, or upper 
region, or embracing the entire length of 
the spine. The pain is aggravated by the 
slightest movement and great sensability 
to being touched at various places along 
the spine. Sharp pain in the region of 
the stomach, sometimes spreading over 
the entire abdomen. Sensation of con- 
striction, and weight in the chest with op- 
pressed breathing, pulse small, quick and 
hard. When the inflammation occupies 
only a part of the cord the symptoms 
vary according to its location. Thus, 
when the upper portion of the cord is 
chiefly affected we frequently find our 
patient cross-eyed, spasms of the throat, 
loss of voice, and other abnormal condi- 
tions of the muscles of the neck, chest 
and upper extremities. When the middle 
of the cord is the seat of the inflammation 
Opisthotonus usually results, that is r 



SPINAL CORD. 41 

bending of the body backward; and when 
that of the lower region is attacked, re- 
tention of urine, or paralytic, or spasmodic 
affections of the pelvic organs generally 
are met with. In each of the latter cases 
the inferior extremities are commonly 
convulsed or paralysed. When the mem- 
branes of the cord are chiefly, or solely 
affected, the sensability is very great, but 
when the inflammation is confined to the 
substance of the cord the suffering is not 
so acute. In the former, moreover, the 
bowels are for the most part constipated, 
while in the latter diarrhea has almost 
uniformily been found to predominate* 

Treatment: — The treatment is pretty 
much the same as in the preceding affec- 
tion. Prescription 'F' is given at the 
commencement of the attack when the 
skin is hot and dry, and the pulse rapid 
with the indications of Inflammatory 
Fever. 

Prescription 'Q 9 is, however, as in the 
preceding affection, our chief reliance. 
If the upper part of the cord is the seat of 
inflammation, producing the head, throat 
and chest symptoms, it is indicated. If 
the lower part is chiefly affected, giving 



42 APOPLEXY. 

rise to the bladder trouble, also convul- 
sion, or paralytic symptoms in the lower 
extremities, its place can not be supplied 
by any other remedy. 

Prescription ' 'D' is also a valuable 
medicine in this complaint when the mid- 
dle portion of the cord is affected, pro- 
ducing Opisthotonus, or pains in the 
chest stomach, or abdomen. 

APOPLEXY. 

{Apoplexia.) 

Few diseases present so many varieties 
in form as Apoplexy and there is not a 
single classification of the many, that 
eminent medical writers have given to 
the world, which is not more or less open 
to objection. An attack of apoplexy is 
recognized by a sudden or gradual loss of 
consciousness, sensation,and motion, with 
greater or less disturbance of the pulse 
and respiration. The premonitory symp- 
toms of this affection are, continued incli- 
nation to sleep, with stertorious breath- 
ing, and frequent grinding of the teeth; 
a general feeling of uneasiness, heavi- 
ness, or a disinclination to the slightest 



APOPLEXY. 45 

exertion; a sense of weight and fulness, 
and pains in different parts of the head, 
sometimes very deep-seated; disturbance 
of the brain, evinced by loss of memory, 
forgetful of words and things, irritable 
temper, or wildness and indifference, or 
despondency and weeping, dimness of 
vision, humming or singing in the ears, 
and difficult swallowing, pains in the 
joints with weak or unsteady mode of 
progression. 

When an individual is threatened with 
Apoplexy, by premonitory symptoms, he 
can not lead a too correct life, late hours, 
mental work, rich food, and stimulants of 
all kinds must be strictly avoided; regular 
hours, plain food, air, and out door exer- 
cise are his best friends. 

Treatment: — When the premonitory 
symptoms present themselves, the attack 
can frequently be warded off by resort- 
ing to prescription 'D,' and, at the same 
time following the directions given above. 
This remedy is also indicated during an 
attack, and particularly so, if the patient 
leads a sedentary life, or is addicted to 
the use of ardent spirits, or indulges too 
freely in the pleasures of the table. 



44 PALSY. 

Prescription 'F' should be given in very 
fat subjects when there is a determina- 
tion of blood to the head, characterized 
by redness of the face, quick, full pulse, 
restlessness and anxiety. 

Prescription 'G' is a very valuable 
medicine when the face is red and bloated, 
the eyes injected and look heavy, 
noises in the ears, pains in the head, with 
violent pressure at the forehead, nose- 
bleed, laborious breathing, and difficult 
swallowing. 

During an attack of Apoplexy the pa- 
tient must be placed in a cool room, with 
the body as near the erect position as is 
comfortable, sitting, or lying with the 
head high. Cold, or cooling applications 
must be made to the head, while warm 
ones are applied to the extremities. 

PALSY. 

{Paralysis.) 



This is an affection in which, the power 
of voluntary motion is diminished or com- 
pletely lost. It usually comes on sud- 
denly, but in some cases it is preceded 
by numbness, coldness and slight convul- 



PALSY. 45 

sive, jerking or twitching in the parts 
affected. 

Treatment: — The treatment must be 
regulated according to the originating 
cause. When it results from apoplexy,, 
or as a sequel of rheumatism we have 
nothing better than prescription 'D\ If 
our patient is, or has been plethoric, from 
rich living, too free use of stimulants, etc. 
makes it all the more strongly indicated. 

Prescription 'B ? is also a valuable 
remedy in paralysis when resulting from 
the above named diseases, and should be 
tried in every instance where prescription 
'D' fails to afford relief. 

Prescription '0 ? should be administered 
if its cause can be traced to the suppres- 
sion of an eruption. This remedy is 
always worthy of a trial in slow cases if 
the skin, or the glands about the neck are 
not in a healthy condition. 

Prescription 'G' has quite a reputation 
in the cure of paralysis attributable to 
exposure, to the fumes of lead. 



46 TETANUS. 

TETANUS. 



This is a disease characterized by in- 
tense rigidity of certain muscles of the 
body. 

Its varieties are Trismus, the lock-jaw, 
Opisthotonus, where the body is bent back- 
ward, which is the most common form. 
Emprosthotonus, where the body is bent 
forward, a still more rare variety. 

This affection is frequently occasioned 
by exposure to cold, but more frequently 
by some irritation of the nerves resulting 
from local injury. 

In some cases the attack comes on sud- 
denly and with extreme violence, but it 
more generally approaches in a gradual 
manner, a slight stiffness being at first 
experienced in the back part of the neck, 
together with an uneasy sensation at the 
root of the tongue, and a difficulty in per- 
forming the act of swallowing. An 
oppressive tightness is complained of in 
the chest, with a pain at the lower end of 
the breast bone, extending through to the 
back, the respiration is impeded, the coun- 
tenance pale, pulse small, bowels consti- 
pated and urine high colored. 



TETANUS. 4? 

The spasmodic action does not continue 
unremitting, the muscular contraction 
occasionally admitting of some abate- 
ment, but is generally immediately re- 
newed as soon as the patient makes an 
effort to speak, drink, or change his posi- 
tion. 

Treatment : — When the first symptoms 
of the disease make their appearance the 
immediate use of prescription 'D' will, 
in many instances, stay its further pro- 
gress, or materially mitigate its violence. 

Prescription 'G' is probably our best 
remedy to relax the intense rigidity of the 
muscles in a fully developed attack. If 
under its use the rigidity shows a dispo- 
sition not to give way, the alternation of 
'G' and T will be followed with quick and 
marked effect. 

Prescription 'O' is a good remedy to 
complete the cure, and prevent its return 
when the muscular contractions have once 
been relieved. 

DELIRIUM TREMENS. 



This is an affection of the brain, and is 
mainly confined to drunkards, hence its 
name, A few instances are on record in 



48 DELIRIUM TREMENS. 

which it has arisen from exhaustion 
caused by excessive depletion, from the 
effects of lead, and also from the prolonged 
use of opium. 

The intemperate use of spiritous, vinous, - 
or malt liquors, is, however, beyond 
comparison, the exciting cause in by far 
the majority of instances. The disease 
generally comes on in drunkards during 
the stage of prostration which ensues 
when they have, in a great measure, 
given, or been suddenly deprived of their 
accustomed stimulus. 

The first symptoms of the malady are 
generally indicated by extreme irritability 
of temper, weakness of memory, but con- 
stant activity of mind, anxiety and uncon- 
trollable restlessness with increased mus- 
cular mobility. The appetite it often good, 
but more frequently impaired, and the 
tongue foul but moist. Soon after these 
premonitory symptoms, vigilence sets in 
and little, or no sleep can be obtained. 
Fixed ideas take firm possession of his 
mind, such as, the supposition that some 
one is bent upon poisoning him, or doing 
him some other grievous injury, and yet 
he dreads being alone. The speech is 



DELIRIUM TREMENS. 49 

frequently stuttering, the countenance 
quick, wild and exceedingly variable. As 
the disease advances, sleep is completely 
banished with perpetual bustling accupa- 
tion and eventually when it is fully 
developed delirium supervenes. 

Treatment: — When not absolutely re- 
quired to give an anodyne to control 
restlessness and produce sleep, we have 
always found the alternation of prescrip- 
tions 'D' and tf G' sufficient to quickly 
afford relief. 

When the restlessness is very great, 
with a wild expression of countenance 
and a disposition to escape, or a tendancy 
to delirium with complete sleeplessness, 
it will be advisable to give a dose of pills 
from prescription 'E' to afford a few hours 
sleep, before resorting to the above treat- 
ment. 

Beef tea made hot with cayenne pep- 
per is a most excellent article of diet when 
the stomach is irritable, nausea, or 
vomiting, or when there is complete loss 
of appetite. 



50 EPILEPSY. 

EPILEPSY. 

(Epilepsia.) 



This is a disease consisting of clonic 
spasms, or convulsions, with loss of con- 
sciousness and voluntary motion, and is 
generally attended with foaming at the 
mouth. 

This affection comes on by fits and is- 
usually characterized by the suddenness 
of the attack, although it is sometimes 
preceded by pain in the head, dulness 
of vision, flashes or sparks before the eyes, 
palpitation, flatulency and languor. Dur- 
ing the paroxysm the eyes are hideously 
convulsed and turned in various direc- 
tions, but at length become fixed so that 
the whites of them alone are seen. The 
fingers are firmly clinched, and the mus- 
cles of the jaws are often spasmodically 
affected, in consequence of which, the 
tongue is sometimes larcerated by being 
thrust out immediately before the sudden 
and violent approximation of the teeth. 

On the abatement of the spasm the 
patient gradually recovers. Sometimes a 
fit of vomiting terminates the attack. The 
memory and judgment are generally 



NEURALGIA 51 

somewhat impaird for some little time 
after the attack, and a sensation of lan- 
guor and exhaustion are complained of. 

Treatment : — This is a very slow disease 
and consequently requires a good deal of 
patience and perseverance. We meet 
with some cases, however, very easily of 
cure, and, also some incurable ones. 

Prescription T has done better in our 
hands than any other medicine, and next 
to it 'GP ranks. We advise a trial with S V 
and so long as any improvement is notica- 
fele to continue its use, then give 'G' a trial 
of a similar kind. When these remedies 
fail singly they often work nicely taken 
in alternation. 

NEURALGIA. 

This distressing affection consists in an 
•excruciating nerve pain, which has its 
most frequent seat in the branches of 
nerves that supply the face and head, and 
is accordingly experienced with great 
acuteness under the eye, and sometimes 
before the ears, from which it shoots over 
the entire half of the face and frequently 
into the orbit and cranium. 



52 HEADACHE. 

The paroxysms occasionally continue 
with shorter, or longer intervals for 
several days, or weeks in succession. The 
disease is unfortunately generally of great 
obstinacy, and in some melancholy in- 
stances, utterly incurable. 

Treatment: — When the malady is 
symptomatic— the result of derangment in 
some other part of the body, which it very 
frequently is — remedies which are appro- 
priate to the primary disease must be had 
recourse to. Thus, when from derange- 
ment of the digestive function, prescrip- 
tion 'D' will be found to afford quick relief; 
and when arising from, or connected with 
diseases of the womb, prescription 'EP 
will be found to act equally as effective. 
There are cases where the disease seems 
to be located in the nerve itself, or at 
least, can not be traced to any other cause, 
here we have a most wonderful curative 
agent in prescription 'F\ 

HEADACHE. 

(Cephalalgia.) 



Headache is often but symptomatic of 
disease, and in such cases, is only cured 



HEADACHE. 53 

by the removal of the primary affection. 
Headaches are so common, almost every 
one have had more or less experience, 
that a description would simply be a waste 
of time. 

Treatment: — When, therefore, it arises 
from derangement of the stomach, dyspep- 
sia, constipation, or dissipation, late hours, 
otc, prescription 'D 9 acts very nicely, and 
when due to having taken cold, particu- 
larly cold in the head, prescription 'F' 
quickly relieves; and when caused by 
fever, congestion, full bounding pulse, 
throbing sensation in the head, with a 
tendency to loss of consciousness prescrip- 
tion 'G' is unquestionably the remedy. 
Females suffer a good deal with head- 
aches arising from affections peculiar to 
their sex, and when met with, prescription 
'H' will do more towards affording relief 
that any other medicine. Prescription 'G' 
is also a valuable medicine in headaches 
of females. 

Periodical headaches, occuring every 
second, third, seventh, or fourteenth day 
will find a soverign remedy in prescrip- 
tion 'H', and headaches arising from a 
bilious state of the system, are cured, and 



54 HEADACHE. 

the bilious condition removed by tak- 
ing a dose of pills from prescription 'A r 
every second night for two or three suc- 
cessive doses, and at the same time take 
from prescription 'B' during the day until 
entirely relieved. 



DISEASES OF ORGANS CONNECTED 



THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 



TOOTHACHE. 

{Odontalgia.) 

A constant disposition to this distress- 
ing malady without any apparent cause, 
or what is generally termed Rheumatic 
Toothache, warrents the conclusion that 
some constitutional taint lurks in the 
system, and until proper measures are 
adopted for its eradication, remedies 
clearly indicated under other circum- 
stances, fail to do more than temporarily 
alleviate suffering. 

This affection is frequently experienced 
in teeth, that are not only sound but 
continue to remain so, clearly demon- 
strating that the trouble is purely a mani- 
festation of some taint in the system. 
The trouble, however, is more generally- 
due to diseased, or decaying teeth, and! 



56 TOOTHACHE. 

should be properly assigned to the care of 
the dentist. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'G' will often 
magically relieve toothache in sound 
teeth when the following symptoms are 
experienced, pains very severe of a draw- 
ing, tearing or shooting nature, extending 
to the face and ears, and growing worse 
in the evening and at night, dryness of 
the mouth with excessive thirst; aggra- 
vation of suffering when masticating, 
also from cold, or the open air; determi- 
nation of blood to the head with heat and 
redness of the face. 

Prescription 'IF is particularly effica- 
cious in toothache when accompanied 
with earache; pains of a shooting, or 
jerking description, frequently extending 
to the face, head, eye and ear of the side 
affected. This remedy is particularly 
adapted to Toothache in females and 
especially so during pregnancy. 

Prescription 'D' is a most excellent 
remedy to alleviate suffering in decayed 
teeth. It is also indicated when the pain 
is of a jerking or gnawing, or throbing,or 
pulsating character. 



QUINZY. 57 

QUINZY. 

(Sore Throat.) 

This affection is characterized by in- 
flammation, swelling and redness of the 
throat, principally the back part of the 
throat, accompanied with alternation of 
the voice, fever, impeded respiration and 
difficulty in swallowing. 

At the begining of this malady there is 
experienced a sense of constriction about 
the throat with a feeling of soreness, and 
sometimes of obstruction in the act of 
swallowing the saliva. If it runs its 
course the difficulty of swallowing and 
breathing increase, the tongue swells and 
becomes foul, the tonsils assume a redder 
hue, and occasionally a number of small 
yellow eminences appear at the back of 
the throat and on the tonsils; the patient 
complains of thirst, and the pulse is high, 
strong and frequent ; sometimes the 
cheeks swell and become florid, and in 
severe cases delirium is not unfrequent. 
As the throat grows worse the majority 
of the foregoing symptoms become ag- 
gravated, and the tonsils swelled, suppu- 
ration takes place if resolution be not 
speedily effected. 



58 QUINZY. 

When suppuration ensues the pain is 
instantly relieved on the bursting of the 
abscess; it sometimes happens, however, 
that the tonsil upon the opposite side fol- 
lows the same course. This complaint 
is sometimes dangerous in its simple 
form, becomes particularly critical when 
it puts on the putrid type. In such in- 
stances the attendant fe^er generally 
assumes a typhoid character. 

Treatment: — If the throat symptoms 
are preceded by a chill or chilly sensa- 
tion, followed by fever, hot, dry skin and 
intense thirst, prescription 'F' should be 
given for a time. 

Prescription 'G' is, however, the great- 
est of all medicines in this affection, and 
should be administered at the first throat 
symptom. The prominent indications for 
its use are, shooting pains in the throat 
during the act of swallowing; spasmodic 
€onstriction, or contraction of the throat, 
with constant and uncontrollable desire 
to swallow the saliva, sometimes there is 
a complete inability to drink, the liquid 
returning by the nostrils; bright red 
color and swelling of the throat; high 
fever, red face, hot head and delirium. 



DIPHTHERIA. 59 s 

Prescription 'PPis frequently servicable 
after prescription 'G,' or in alternation 
with this remedy whep the following 
symptoms are present: shooting or burn- 
ing pains with a sensation of swelling of 
the throat; dry cough excited by con- 
stant tickling in the throat, attended with 
hoarseness; increase of fever ih the even- 
ing, attended with shivering, red face and 
restlessness. 

Prescription 'O' is valuable in bringing 
the swelled tonsil to a head, when resolu- 
tion cannot be effected, and a sense of 
suffocation is experienced from its en- 
largement. This remedy in such cases 
can be continued until a cure is effected. 

DIPHTHERIA. 



This justly dreaded disease, and ulcer- 
ated, or malignant sore throat, bear a very 
strong resemblance, so much so, that the 
experienced frequently mistake one for 
the other. It is not out of place here to 
speak of the two diseases under this head, 
as the treatment that cures diphtheria 
will also relieve malignant sore throat. 
Diphtheria usually reigns a& an epidemic* 



60 DIPHTHERIA. 

of a highly contageous nature, and 
generally occurs in damp and sultry 
autumnal seasons. It sets in with cold- 
ness and shivering, followed by fever, and 
accompanied with great languor and 
oppression of the chest; nausea, or vomit- 
ing and sometimes purging, eyes inflamed 
and watery, deep red color of the cheeks, 
the nostrils are also more or less inflamed 
and secrete a thin acrid discharge, pulse 
indistinct, or very weak, small and irregu- 
lar, tongue white and moist. The 
swallowing is painful and difficult, and 
the throat on being examined early in the 
disease is observed to be of a bright red 
color and much swelled, but this state is 
very soon altered and numerous ulcers of 
various sizes will then show themselves 
interspersed over the parts, which become 
covered with a white, grayish brown, or 
livid coat. The prostration, considerable 
from the first, is now excessive, the 
tongue, lips and teeth are covered with 
brown, or blackish incrustations and there 
is more or less delirium. 

The neck appears swollen and of a livid 
color, and an efflorescence of a faint 
scarlet hue breaks out on various parts of 



DIPHTHERIA. 61 

the body, and usually, though not neces- 
sarily adds to the danger. But the 
appearance of livid spots and other indi- 
cations of so-called putrescency, with 
frequent shivering, fluttering or 
intermittent pulse, sunken countenance, 
severe purging, extreme prostration, 
bleeding from the nose or mouth, &c., 
■ must decidedly be regarded as symptoms 
of great danger. 

When the local symptoms are mild the 
danger is rarely great, and even in the 
severe forms of the disease, when a gentle 
perspiration breaks out about the forth or 
fifth day, and when the sloughs throw off 
in a favorable manner, leaving a clean 
florid, healthy looking surface, and the res- 
piration becomes gentle and free, the 
expression of the face more lively, and 
the pulse stronger, a salutary result may 
be expected. 

Treatment: — A few doses of prescrip- 
tion 'F' given at the commencement of 
this affection, preceeding the throat 
symptoms, will often materially lessen 
the severity of its course. 

Prescription 'G' should be administered 
as soon as the patient complains of dry- 



62 DIPHTHERIA. 

ness and difficult in swallowing, with a 
sense of constriction of the throat and 
oppression of the chest. It is further indi- 
cated when the fever continues to run 
high, the throat swollen and presenting 
a florid red appearance, the face bloated 
and the eyes inflamed, and considerable 
delirum is present. It is also further 
indicated when the eruption, which some- 
times breaks out in this disorder, presents 
a scarlet hue, and is smooth and glossy. 
Prescription 'H' will, as a general thing 
quickly relieve all stomach irregularities 
that sometimes accompany this affection, 
such as, nausea and billious vomiting, etc. 

Prescription 'O' is the remedy to be 
given when the disease reaches the ulcera- 
tive stage, and a marked improvement 
should be noticed in the patients general 
appearance soon after its administration, 
and most cases will be conducted to a 
salutary termination without the assis- 
tance of any other remedy. 

Prescription 'L' is an excellent medicine 
in this complaint when there is marked 
prostration of strength, accompanied with 
nausea and vomiting, or when the ulcer- 
ated throat presents a livid hue. 



MUMPS. 63 

This important remedy is also indicated 
in a more advanced stage of the disease, 
when the ulceration is covered with dark 
sloughs, the tongue parched, cracked, 
blackish and tremulous, the pulse small 
and irregular, with delirium and constant 
muttering. 

MUMPS, 

{Parotitis-) 



This affection consists of inflammation 
and swelling of the parotid and submax- 
illary glands, which are situated beneath 
the ear and under the jaw. It generally 
attacks individuals under fourteen years 
of age, and frequently declares itself as 
an epidemic during the prevalence of cold 
damp weather. When properly treated 
it is rarely dangerous, but particularly 
apt, if not carefully attended, to attack 
some mort important organs by metasta- 
sis — for example: suddenly disappearing 
in the glands mentioned, and painfully 
affecting those of the breast, &c. These 
sudden changes may occur either from 
exposure to cold or from astringent appli- 
cations. 



64 DYSPEPSIA. 

This complaint is generally ushered in 
by the ordinary symptoms of mild catar- 
rhal fever, after which the swelling 
declares itself, sometimes interfering 
with the motions of the jaw, and by the 
extension of inflammation to the tonsils, 
affecting the hearing and impeding 
respiration. 

Treatment: — We seldom ever use any 
other medicine than prescription 'O' to 
cure mumps. If there should be much 
fever, a few doses of prescription 'F' will 
be necessary, and if the throat should 
become much affected, or head symptoms 
show themselves it will be advisable to 
resort to prescription 'G' for a time. 

Dyspepsia or Indigestion. 



As this too common disease displays 
itself in so many different phases, in the 
short space allotted us, we shall simply 
content ourselves with enumerating some 
of the principal exciting causes, and 
refer to the symptoms given under the 
different medicines for its description. 

Irregularities in diet, such as an over 
indulgence in the pleasures of the table, 
partaking of rich and indigestible food 



DYSPEPSIA. 65 

and excessive use of wine, malt and 
spiritous liquors, strong tea and coffee 
and other stimulants; imperfect masti- 
cation of food; irregularity of, or too 
long fasting between meals; indolent or 
sedentary habits; exhaustion from intense 
study, keeping late hours, mental emo- 
tion, etc., are the chief causes of this 
affection. 

The foundation of this disorder is fre- 
quently laid in early life by the baneful 
practice of administering large doses of 
calomel and other like medicines for the 
most trivial as well as the most serious 
derangements, and the evil is perpetuated 
in more mature age by a continuance of 
the same absurd and injurious practice. 
Treatment: — Prescription 'D' is strongly 
indicated when the following symptoms 
are present, either when they have arisen 
in consequence of sedentary habits? 
or from the abuse of wine, or ardent 
spirits; the head confused with a feeling 
as resulting from intoxication, and giddi- 
ness with a sensation of turning of 
the brain; headache, unfitting for, or 
increased by mental exertion, distention 
and fulness in the stomach with excessive 



66 DYSPEPSIA. 

tenderness to the touch, a feeling of 
tightness of the clothes around the upper 
part of the waist; frequent and violent 
vomiting of food, mucus, or bile, or an 
ineffectual effort to vomit, heartburn^ 
acidity, flatulency, insipid taste of the 
food, and constipation, reddish urine with 
brick-dust colored sediment, sleep unre- 
freshing and restless. 

Prescription 'IF will effect a cure when 
we find the following symptoms, a re- 
pugnance to rich food, pies, pastry 
and the like, regardless of its injurious 
consequences; a want of thirst, general 
chilliness, or great difficulty in keeping 
the hands and feet sufficiently warm- 
great weight in the stomach soon after 
eating, with frequent sour eructations, 
frequent, loose or sluggish evacuations, 
melancholy. 

Prescription 'B' is particularly indica- 
ted when we find a good deal of headache 
of a burning, or expansive character, 
attended with bewilderment of the head 
and vertigo; tongue, dry, red, or covered 
with a whitish yellow coat, appetite very 
poor, and sometimes the aversion to food 
is so great that the smell of it cannot be 



CONSTIPATION. 67 

borne; great thirst, bitter taste in the 
mouth, and a craving for acid drinks r 
acidity and flatulency, nausea and vom- 
iting of food and bile; tenderness and 
swelling of the abdomen; constipation, 
stools dark, dry and difficult to void. 

Prescription 'K ? is a valuable remedy 
in weak and imperfect digestion when 
there is a general weak and relaxed state 
of the system with constipation and sore 
throat. 

CONSTIPATION. 

{Obstructio Alvi.) 



We have now to treat of an affection 
which frequently baffles the skill of prac- 
titioners; their leading cause of failure 
being their ignorance of, or inattention 
to the great curative principal, and con- 
sequently proceed upon a system opposed 
to the operations of nature. This com- 
plaint is generally sympathetic with some 
other derangement of the organism, and 
consequently in our treatment of different 
diseases, we have had frequent occasion 
to allude to it. 

One of the leading causes of aggravation 
and excessive obstinancy in constipation 



68 CONSTIPATION. 

is the practice of flying to aperient 
medicines on the slightest appear- 
ance of costiveness under the absurd idea 
that keeping the bowels open is a species 
of panacea against, disease of every de- 
scription. 

Many mothers are so possessed with 
this idea that they continually administer 
physic to their children, without the 
slightest apparent call for it, and thus 
lay the foundation of dyspepsia and other 
visceral derangements in after life. Many 
a slight case of costiveness, which if left 
to nature would have disappeared of itself, 
leaving no ill consequences, has, by an 
ill-judged administration of cathartic, 
been converted into obstinate and hab- 
itual constipation embittering existence, 
and predisposing the constitution to a 
variety of diseases in after life. We do 
not wish it to be understood that we un- 
dervalue a regular state of the bowels, 
for, on the contrary, we know how abso- 
lutely necessary a regularity in this 
particular is dependent a healthy state of 
the system, and it is this knowledge which 
prompts us to put aside a practice that 
offers at the most, but a few hours relief 



CONSTIPATION. 69 

to be followed by days, months, or prob- 
ably a life time of suffering. We do not 
wish it understood either, that we under- 
value cathartics, for they have their field 
of usefulness; it is this abominable practice 
of taking a dose of pills whenever the 
bowels are a little sluggish. As we have 
before said, constipation is generally sym- 
pathetic with some other derangement of 
the organism, and when that is corrected, 
constipation will be corrected also, and 
without applying a cathartic as you 
would apply the lash to rest a tired horse. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'D' will be 
found a useful medicine when constipa- 
tion results from too free indulgence in 
rich, indigestible food, and stimulating 
liquors, or when the confined state of the 
bowels has resulted from prolonged diar- 
rhea, or frequent purgings. 

It will also be found a very important 
remedy in chronic cases, arising from 
long continued indulgence in vinous, fer- 
mented, or spiritous drinks, or from seden- 
tary habit, or excessive study. 
Prescription 'B'is particularly indicated in 
constipation occurring in warm weather, 
and in rheumatic subjects; constipation 



70 PILES. 

arising from a disordered state of the 
stomach, with fullness about the head, 
headache; stools dark, dry, hard, and 
difficult to pass. 

Prescription 'K' is also a very useful 
remedy in constipation when due to a 
general weak, releaxed and rundown 
state of the system; poor appetite, sore 
throat, imperfect digestion, and consti- 
pation, stool soft, but want of ability to 
pass them. 

In mild cases of constipation strict at- 
tention to diet will generally be sufficient 
ix> effect a cure, to avoid too dry or indi- 
gestible food, to partake freely of fruit, 
to masticate properly, and take sufficient 
exercise in the open air. Regularity in 
habits has a great deal to do with the cure 
of constipation. With these precautions 
and the proper selection of one of the 
above named medicines we think any 
case of constipation can be relieved. 

HEMORRHOIDS OR PILES. 



This disease, so common, and so well- 
known, consists of an enlargement of the 
hemorrhoidal vains situated in the 
mucus membrane inside and outside of 



PILES. 71 

the anus. When outside they are termed 
external piles, and when inside internal 
piles, and when, during the act of evacu- 
ating the bowels, one or more of these 
engorged veins burst they are termed 
bleeding piles, and when they do not 
bleed they are termed blind piles. These 
enlarged veins form tumors of different 
sizes, from a pea to a cherry, or a walnut, 
and sometimes encircle the whole anal 
opening like a bunch of grapes. 

For ages piles were believed to be of 
great benefit to the organism, and they 
were therefore called the golden vein; 
and indeed, if we consider all the kinds, 
and amount of mischief which may be 
done in the body by the suppression of 
hemorrhoids, this expression would seem 
to be founded upon sound observation, 
and would at once remove that erronious 
idea, that piles are a mere local disease, 
and the absurd practice of treating them 
exclusively local. 

As a forerunner to their local appear- 
ance, we observe a fullness and pressure 
in the stomach, disturbed digestion, bloat- 
edness of the abdomen, costiveness, dull 
pain in the small of the back, head, and a 



72 PILES. 

disinclination to work, especially mental 
occupation. After a shorter, or longer 
duration of these symptoms, a sensation 
of itching, pricking, tickling, burning or 
pressing is felt at the anus with a gradual 
development, or growth- of the varicose 
veins, or piles. Thus, the whole com- 
plaint is of a very slow and tedious 
nature, changing constantly from better 
to worse. The occasional spells of 
bleeding are frequently attended with a 
feeling of relief, though they do not better 
the malady itself in any way. 

Treatment : — The practice among sur- 
geons of removing these hemorrhoidal 
tumors by means of the knife, or ligature 
is very questionable, for apart from the 
danger attending the operation, in a great 
number of cases it wholely fails, and the 
disease returns often in an aggravated 
form. 

Hemorrhoids in individuals, who lead a 
sedentary life, or who indulge in strong 
coffee, or other stimulating liquids, are 
promptly relieved by prescription 'D,' if 
the piles are attended with shooting, 
burning, or itching pains, with colic, con- 
stipation, and sometimes painful and 



PILES. 73 

difficult urination. This medicine will 
also relieve piles in females during preg- 
nancy. 

When there is a discharge of blood and 
mucous at the time of stool, accompanied 
by smarting and sensation of excoria- 
tion, pains in the back, pallid countenance 
and a disposition to fainting, prescription 
'H' is the remedy to be given. And when 
there is burning and shooting pains in 
the hemorrhoids attended with utter pros- 
tration of strength, prescription 'L' will 
be found curative. 

Prescription 'M' is, however, the great 
pile remedy, and in bleeding piles can 
almost be termed a specific. This is not 
only a most excellent medicine taken 
internally, but makes a valuable external 
application in this annoying trouble. 

During the treatment of this affection 
it is of the utmost importance to attend 
strictly to rules of diet. Strong or heat, 
ing drinks, such as wines, spiritous and 
malt liquors, and stimulating or highly 
seasoned food of all kinds are particularly 
to be avoided, Sedentary habits, or the 
use of soft cushions materially tend to 
aggravate the affection. 



74 COLIC, 

COLIC. 

(Enteralgia.) 

We understand by this term a griping, 
tearing, gnawing, or shooting pain in the 
bowels , chiefly confined to the region of. 
the navel, generally attended with pain- 
ful distention of the abdomen, spasmodic 
contraction and sometimes vomiting and 
constipation, rarely diarrhea . 

The general exciting causes of this com- 
plaint are acid fruits and indigestible 
substances, cold from wet feet, drinking 
cold beverages when heated, constipation, 
worms, etc. 

External pressure sometimes gives 
relief and sometimes aggravates the pain. 
Warm external applications relieve in the 
majority of instances, while cold applica- 
tions almost always aggravate the 
suffering. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'D' will, in 
the majority of cases, quickty relieve 
either flatulent, or hemorrhoidal colic, or 
colic arising from a chill from having 
taking cold, acute pressive and forcing 
down sensation, compelling the sufferer 
to bend double, constipation, coldness 



BOWELS. 75 

and numbness in the hands and feet dur- 
ing* the paroxysm. 

Prescription 'IT is often of peculiar 
efficacy in colic occuring in females either 
during the monthly period, or at other 
times, or when coming on periodically in 
the evening during cold damp weather 
and accompanied with tightness and dis- 
tention of the abdomen, aggravation of the 
suffering when at rest, better when in 
motion. 

Prescription 'B' is an excellent remedy 
to relieve colic arising from constipation, 
from indigestible food, or from worms. 

Prescription 'O' is an admirable remedy 
to give when other remedies only partially 
relieve. It is also a valuable medicine to 
rid the system of the disposition to this 
affection. 

LOOSENESS OF THE BOWELS. 

{Diarrhea.) 



This disease is characterized by fre- 
quent liquid evacuations, and generally 
owing to inflammation, or irritation of the 
mucous membrane of the intestines. It is 
commonly caused by errors in diet, such 
as, the use of irritating, or indigestible 



76 BOWELS. 

food; by taking cold from check of 
perspiration, by sudden change in 
temperature and by causes that are num- 
erous. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'B' should be 
given in diarrhea caused by hot weather, 
or from taking cold from check of pers- 
piration. This is also a valuable medicine 
in cases where the stools contain consid- 
erable bile, billious diarrhea, stools passed 
almost involuntary and contain portion of 
undigested food, stools thin, dark, and 
almost painless. 

Prescription 'W is one of the best remi- 
dies in simple looseness, or diarrhea 
arising from errors in diet, such as, indul- 
gence in acid fruits, or rich indigestible 
food, attended with foul tongue and other 
dyspeptic symptoms. This is also a valua- 
ble remedy in diarrhea of females due to 
suppression of the menstrual flow. 

Prescription 'W is strongly indicated 
when the stools are scanty and consist of 
slime and blood attended with straining 
and great weakness, flatulency and vio- 
lent cutting pains in the region of the 
navel. 

Prescription 'P' is a valuable medicine 



DYSENTERY. 77 

in loosness of the bowels arising from indi- 
gestion, attended with nausea and 
vomiting, stools thin, watery, and of a 
greenish color. This remedy and pre- 
scription 'H' work well in alternation. 

Prescription '0 ? will be found a useful 
medicine in chronic cases of painless diar- 
rhea, and where there is dyspepsia of 
long standing, weak, debilitated and run- 
down state of the system. 

DYSENTERY. 

(Dysenteria.) 



Dysentery is an inflammation of the 
mucous membrane of the large intestines, 
and is recognized by a constant urgency 
to evacuate, the bowels attended with a 
good-deal of straining and violent pains 
in the abdomen, a great or less degree of 
fever, particularly towards evening, and 
stools of mucous and blood. 

This disease may occur suddenly, but is 
frequently preceded by loss of appetite, 
costiveness, flatulency, nausea or slight 
vomiting, with a chill, or chilly feeling 
followed by heat of skin and accelerated 
pulse, then dull abdominal pains, and 



78 DYSENTERY. 

increased evacuations. After a time no 
faeces are discharged with the stools , but 
only mucous tinged with blood, the blood 
increases with each evacuation as the 
disease increases, and in extreme cases 
the stool becomes pure blood. 

This affection should be treated 
promptly and decisively. If not checked 
in time the disease may terminate in 
ulceration, or the patient sink from ex- 
haustion. 

Treatment: — At the beginning of this 
affection, when there is a good-deal of 
fever, indicated by full and hard pulse, 
severe pains, abdomen tense and painful 
when touched, denoting the commence- 
ment of inflammation, we should resort to 
prescription 'F', and by its timely use 
many severe cases will be made mild, and 
many mild ones nipped in the bud. It will 
also be found useful when the pains 
resemble rheumatism in different parts of 
the body with shivering, or excessive heat 
and thirst. 

Prescription 'P ? is a very valuable medi- 
cine when the dysenteric affection seems 
fairly established, and the stools consist 
of slimy matter, containing white flocks. 



CHOLERA MORBUS. 79 

followed by greenish, or bloody evacua- 
tions. But when the dysenteric stool is 
of a brownish color, with putrid odor, 
and containing lumps of coagulated 
mucous, prescription 'B'is equally as valua- 
ble. This medicine is often indicated when 
the attack occurs in hot weather from the 
effects of a chill from check of perspira- 
tion, and it is still further indicated in the 
advanced stage of the disease when the 
fever assumes a typhoid character, and 
the evacuations resemble undigested sub* 
stances, or small hard lumps, or balls. 
When the more acute symptoms are 
relieved, but the dysentery still continues 
obstinate, prescription '0' will often com- 
plete the cure. 

CHOLERA MORBUS. 



This malady consists of vomiting and 
purging, spasmodic pain in the stomach 
and abdomen, sometimes cramps in the 
legs, rapid loss of strength, and coldness 
of the skin. The attack comes on almost 
always suddenly, and frequently in the 
middle of the night. The thirst is great, 
the vomiting constant, and the purging 
consist of fetid fluid discharges contain- 



SO CHOLERA MORBUS. 

ing a large quantity of bile at first, which, 
however, soon diminishes until at last 
the discharges approach rice-water in 
appearance without smell. 

This affection prevails mostly during 
summer heat, although there are cases in 
other seasons, and it seems to be incited 
especially by exposure, check of perspi- 
ration, drinking largely of ice water, or 
imprudence in eating. It differs from 
Asiatic Cholera in not being caused by a 
specific poison. 

Treatment : — When this disease comes 
on suddenly, as it most always does, 
with cramps in the stomach, sometimes 
extending into the legs; violent vomiting 
and purging, the emissions consisting of 
undigested food, we as quickly as possi- 
ble give prescription 'P,' and those cases 
it fails to check, their further progress is 
very much lessened in severity. This 
remedy is also indicated when the disease 
is further advanced and the discharges 
resemble rice-water, and it seldom if 
-ever fails to relieve in mild cases when 
the vomiting is mostly of a sour fluid 
without diarrhea. 

When this affection assumes a severe 



SUMMER COMPLAINT. 81 

character from the first, with rapid pros- 
tration of strength, insatiable thirst, 
burning sensation in the region of the 
stomach with violent and painful vom- 
iting, prescription 'U is strongly called 
for. This medicine in the advanced 
stages of the disease, when the pulse is 
small, weak, and intermittent, and the 
tongue and lips dry, cracked, bluish or 
black, has no equal. 

In mild cases, with mucous diarrhoea* 
prescription 'H' will afford quick relief, 
and in cases when vomiting and purging 
occur at the same time with cramps in 
the legs and feet, prescription '0' should 
be given. 

SUMMER COMPLANT. 
(Cholera Infantum.) 

This is a disease found every summer 
prevailing among children under two 
years of age, especially in large and 
densely crowded cities. It generally 
commences with diarrhea, followed by 
vomiting. The discharges are whitish, 
ash-colored or yellowish, changing into 
green or greenish and having sometimes 
a very penetrating, and at others, a 



82 SUMMER COMPLAINT. 

peculiar sweetish fresh smell. There is 
generally a great deal of thirst present, 
but the liquid is often not retained. 

The child soon becomes weakened and 
emaciated, the abdomen sinks in, and the 
constant loss of fluids causes gradual 
and general anaemia. 

This complaint, occurring generally 
during the period of teething, most likely 
has for its main causes, the changes 
known to take place in the digestive sys- 
tem at this time preparatory to receiving 
a food of a more solid nature and to the 
rapid growth of brain at this time, when 
it needs for its development an abundance 
of fresh air, we see therefore a change 
of air alone sometimes recuits the little 
sufferer. 

Treatment: — In children with small 
limbs, large heads, bloated abdomens, 
wrinkled faces, slow teething and with 
almost transparent skin, the timely use 
of prescription 'C will often prevent 
summer complaint. This medicine is 
also specially indicated during the attack 
when the stools are whitish, watery and 
often of a sour smell, sour vomiting, sour 
perspiration, and great emaciation: also 



LIVER. 8$ 

when the skin, hands, feet and legs are 
cold in the hotest weather. 

When the stools assume a green or 
greenish cast with nausea and vomiting 
of food, or milk, as soon as taken into 
the stomach, prescription IP* is a most 
valuable remedy and will be followed 
with quick and beneficial results. It is 
further indicated when the face is pale 
and waxy, with painful expression 
around the mouth, sunken eyes and great 
emaciation. Cases benefited with either 
of the above remedies, but not entirely 
relieved, a cure will speedily be consuma- 
ted by the use of prescription 'O.* 

INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. 

(Hepatitis-) 



This disease is characterized by pain 
more, or less severe in the right side just 
under the lower edge of the ribs, some- 
times resembling stitches, and others, 
burning, shooting to the breast and right 
shoulder with a sensation of numbness 
of the arm of the same side: the pain is 
generally increased by taking a deep 
breath, and more or less fever is present, 



84 LIVER. 

with a short, dry cough; bowels irregular, 
generally constipated, and stools in the 
majority of instances of an unnatural 
oolor. 

When the seat of the disease is on the 
underside of the liver the pain is much 
less, the patient complaining more of 
pressure than actual pain, but the whole 
billiary system is much more affected. 
The eyes and countenance become yellow 
and often complete jaundice declares 
itself; the urine is orange colored, the 
evacuations mostly hard and generally 
of a whitish, or gray color. We also find 
bitter taste in the mouth, vomiting, and 
considerable distress. When the disease 
assumes a chronic form we find pretty 
much the same state of affairs except the 
symptoms are much less acute. 

This disease is much more common in 
tropical climes than with us. There a 
high mode of living; exposed to heavy 
dews, or damps in the evenings, and to 
the powerful rays of the sun by day, are 
among its principal exciting causes, but 
it may also arise from violent mental 
emotions ; the too free use of stimulating, 
or alcoholic drinks; strong emetics, pur- 



LIVER. 85 

.gatives, or the abuse of mercury; gall 
stones, or injuries of the brain, etc. 

Treatment: — When this affection is 
brought on by the excessive use of stimu- 
lents, or the abuse of emetics, purgatives 
or the taking of mercury in too large 
quantities, prescription 'D' should be 
thought of, and when in connection with 
any of the above causes we find the pains 
shooting and pulsating, and attended 
with excessive tenderness, at the region 
of the liver, to touch, with shortness of 
breath and constipation, this remedy can 
t>e given with great confidence. 

When the pains in the region of the 
liver are mostly shooting, or consist of 
an obtuse pressure, with tension and 
burning, increased by touch, coughing or 
taking a deep breath, prescription 'B' is 
strongly indicated; also when the symp- 
toms are attended with violent spasmodic 
oppression of the chest; rapid and 
anxious respiration; bitter taste in the 
mouth, tongue coated yellow, and constL 
pation. 

When either of the medicines named 
fail to afford entire relief, prescription 
■*0' is a most excellent remedy to complete 



86 STOMACH. 

the cure. This remedy is also valuable 
in the chronic form of the disease. 

In the chronic form of the disease a 
dose of pills from prescription 'A' every 
third, or fifth night will be attended with 
good results. This is an important medi- 
cine for an inactive liver and obstinate 
constipation. 

The diet should be plain, and in the acute 
stage, principally of good sweet milk? 
with acid drinks to quench the thirst. 
Rich food, and stimulating, or alcoholic 
drinks must strictly be avoided. 

INFLAMMATION of the STOMACH. 

(Gastritis.) 



Bj gastritis we mean an inflammation 
of the mucous membrane of the stomach, 
which frequently involves the submucous 
tissue, and sometimes the entire stomach. 

It is characterized by burning, or shoot- 
ing pains in the region of the stomach, 
increased by pressure, inspiration , or the 
passage of food; swelling, heat, and 
tightness over the entire stomach region 9 
sometimes with pulsation; great thirst, 
nausea and vomiting increased, or brought 



STOMACH, 87 

-on by the smallest quantity of food, or 
drink; soreness of the throat, hiccough, 
great restlessness, anxiety, and prostra- 
tion of strength: coldness of the 
extremities; tongue generally red at 
the tip and around the edges, foul at the 
centre and root; small, sometimes scarcely 
perceptible pulse; sunken features with 
expression of anxiety; generally consti- 
pation but frequently diarrhea, or alter- 
nation of these two states. In severe 
cases we frequently meet with spasms, 
convulsions, and even tetanus. 

The most frequent causes of this affec- 
tion are, cold drinks, or iced water when 
heated; the admission of acid or poisonous 
substances into the stomach, from having 
swallowed any rough pointed body, ex^ 
ternal injury, ardent spirits, etc. 

Treatment : — In those cases where the 
fever runs excessively high with dry skin 
and restlessness, prescription 'F' must be 
given and continued until relief is ob- 
tained unless the symptoms present, call 
more strongly for some other remedy. 

When the vomiting is excessive, the 
region of the stomach considerably dis- 
tended, and the patient affected with 



88 BOWELS. 

great anxiety, restlessness and difficult 
breathing, prescription T' must be re- 
sorted to. 

In gastritis of drunkards with low 
fever, nausea and vomiting after the 
simplest food, prescription '!>' is the 
remedy to afford quick relief. It is,, 
moreover, one of the most useful medi- 
cines when this disease occurs as a 
metastasis from suppressed piles. 

Gastritis arising from the sudden sup- 
pression of some secretion, such as, the 
menstrual flux, etc. , is successfully . 
treated with prescription 'H' also cases 
proceeding from a chill in the stomach 
from ice. 

If the pain is of a burning character, 
with violent vomiting immediately after 
drinking; the pulse small, quick, and oc- 
casionally intermitting; anxiety, restless- 
ness and excessive prostration of strength, 
prescription 'L' offers to render the best 
service. 

INFLAMMATION of the BOWELS. 
{Enteritis.) 

This disease is comparatively of rare 
occurrence as a primary affection, but 



BOWELS. 89 

appears much more frequently as a symp- 
tomatic trouble, particularly in the course 
of certain fevers, such as, Typhoid Fever, 
Scarlet Fever, Measles, etc . 

It much more frequently occurs in the 
sub-acute, or chronic, than in the acute 
form. In the acute form of the disease, 
the symptoms are usually as follows: 
intense burning, or pungent pain generally 
in one spot of the abdomen, especially in 
the region of the naval, increased by the 
slightest pressure and by movement, 
with tightness, heat, and distention of 
the abdomen; violent thirst with aggrava- 
tion of suffering from cold drinks- 
obstinate constipation; violent vomiting 
first of slime and bile, and sometimes 
even of excrements; small and contracted 
pulse, inflammatory fever, flatulence, and 
frequently obstruction of the urine. In 
the sub-acute, or chronic form of the dis- 
ease a general feeling of soreness is 
diffused over the abdomen which is com- 
monly, though not always, increased by 
pressure; indigestible food, or cold drinks 
almost always cause an aggravation of 
pain. The tongue is often very red, 
.smooth, and glossy; loss of appetite, 



90 PERITONEUM. 

indigestion with nausea and vomiting 
more, or less prominent, being greater the 
nearer the seat of inflammation is to the 
stomach. When the seat of trouble is 
lower down we usually find diarrhea, the 
stools being frequently slimy and mixed 
with blood, and in severe cases consisting 
of pure blood. 

Treatment: — -At the beginning of the 
acute form of the disease when the ac- 
companying fever is intense, and the 
skin hot and parched, prescription 'F* 
should be given for a time, until the fever 
is somewhat abated and a slight moisture 
of the skin is noticeable. 

After the previous employment of pre- 
scription 'F,' prescription 'B' is a very 
useful remedy, particularly when the 
patient complains of severe headache 
with constipation and acute pain in the 
abdomen, aggravated by movement; it is 
also indicated when there is a dark red- 
ness of the tongue, or whitish, or yellow 
coated tongue; loose, offensive evacua- 
tions particularly after partaking of food, 
or drink. Enteritis characterized by a 
feeling of soreness, or of burning heat in 
the abdomen, attended' with nausea, no 



PERITONEUM. 91 

appetite and great thirst calls for pre- 
scription 'L.' This remedy is further 
indicated when there is complete prostra- 
tion of strength. 

In the sub-acute, or chronic form of 
enteritis, when there is fulness and 
uneasiness in the abdomen, increased by 
eating, or cold drinks, prescription 'O r 
should be called into requisition. It is 
also indicated when we have constipation 
and diarrhea alternately, flatulency; skin 
yellow, or otherwise unhealthy looking,, 
or dry and peeling; cold, clamy perspira- 
tion at night, or towards morning; ema- 
ciation. 

In acute inflammation, either of the 
stomach or bowels, no solid food should 
be allowed, broth, or, even gruel and the 
like should be used sparingly and with 
great care. 

Inflammation of the Peritoneum, 

(Peritonitis.) 

This is a disease of the membrane that 
lines the walls of the abdomen and re- 
flects over the intestines and other abdom- 
inal organs to hold them in position; and 
is characterized by painful tension of the 



92 WORMS. 

abdomen with a sensibility to touch, even 
more acute than inflammation, of the 
bowels, so much so that the 
patient cannot bear even the pressure 
of a sheet upon the abdomen, compelling 
him generally to lie quiet upon his back 
with his feet drawn up. Nausea and 
vomiting are always present if the inflam- 
mation is very great, vomiting first, of 
what has been eaten, then of slimy and 
bilious, and finally greenish masses; obsti- 
nate constipation, and frequently obstruc- 
tion of urine; violent thirst, inflammatory 
fever and pulse small, quick and at times 
fluttering. 

Treatment: — As this affection is always 
attended with intense fever and inflam- 
mation, we should at once give prescrip- 
tion 'F,' and in many instances a 
complete cure will be effected without a 
change of treatment. This medicine will 
in every case reduce the fever and 
inflammation, and should always be 
continued until a moisture upon the skin 
is noticeable. 

When the inflammation" extends up- 
wards to the chest, and breathing becomes 
affected, with acute pain, prescription 



WORMS. 9$ 

'B' will quickly afford relief, and when 
there is painful sensibility and distention 
of the abdomen, with nausea, vomiting 
and constipation, prescription 'D' is the 
remedy to be given. If the inflammation 
is due to external injury, from a blow or 
fall, the external application of prescrip- 
tion 'W should at once be made, while at 
the same time prescription 'M' should be 
administered internally. 

INVERMINATION. WORMS. 



The existence of worms in the intes- 
tines, in most instances, plainly arisen 
from a peculiar constitutional taint, 
producing a certain unhealthy state of the 
lining membrane, and thereby giving rise 
to the formation of these little animals; 
and although no period of life is wholly 
exempt from their presence, infants and 
children appear to be much more subject 
to them than adults. 

The three species most generally met 
with in the human subject are, the 
thread, or maw-worm, the long round 
worm, and the tenia, or tape worm. 

The presence of worms, unless when 
passed, is not always easy of detection,. 



D4 WORMS. 

since sub-acute inflammation of the 
mucous membrane from other causes will 
frequently present nearly the same range 
of symptoms. Worms, and especially 
ascarides, frequently exist in the intes- 
tines without occasioning any disturbance 
and their presence is only known by their 
being observed in the evacuations. When 
the intestines become irritated by them, a 
number of symptoms are developed, the 
following are the principal: pallor and 
sickly appearance of the countenance: 
livid circles round the eyes; headache, or 
vertigo; irregularity of the appetite, some- 
times avaricious and then again wanting; 
foul tongue; tensive fulness of the abdo- 
men with a sensation of gnawing and 
burning at particular parts; hard and 
"tumid belly; discharge of mucous from the 
bowels and bladder; heat and itching of 
the nose and anus, slight fever, and at 
times of a remittent character; wakeful- 
ness, irritable temper and gradual 
emaciation. In addition to the above 
general symptoms we frequently meet 
with severe colic like pains with straining 
and slimy and bloody evacuations, invol- 
untary flow of saliva especially when 



WORMS. 95 

asleep; convulsions in children, and epi- 
leptic attacks, combined with brain 
affections in adults. 

Treatment : — Children of lymphatic 
constitution, with a disposition to cold in 
the head and diarrhea; feeble debilitated 
frame; defective nutrition; face pale and 
hollow, or puffy and of diminished tem- 
perature, can in almost every instance be 
relieved of worms and the system built 
up and made strong by the persistent use 
for a time of prescription 'C It is also 
strongly called for in complications with 
scrofula and rickets, or when there is 
chronic derangement of the digestive 
functions. 

Prescription 'O' is also a very valuable 
medicine in this affection when arising 
from a constitutional predisposition which 
is recognized by an almost constant dis_ 
charge from the eyes, nose, ears, bowels, 
or bladder; bitter slimy taste, aversion to 
meat; irresistably longing for sugar, or 
something sweet; alternations of loss of 
appetite and voracity, frequent regurgi- 
tation of what has been eaten together 
with hiccough and at times vomiting; 
also when the itching and feeling of sore- 



96 



WORMS. 



ness of the anus and rectum are extremely 
distressing. 

We unhesitatingly say, after long 
experience, that every child with a pre- 
disposition to, or suffering from worms 
can be relieved by proper administration 
of the above mentioned remedies and 
the general system very materially 
improved. 

Prescription 'D' will rid the system of 
worms caused by insufficient and un- 
wholesome food; excess of vegetable, and 
deficiency of animal diet; impure air and 
want of sunlight; damp, dark, and ill-ven- 
tilated dwelling, etc. 

The diet should be wholesome and 
nutritious with a supply of meat, such as 
roast or boiled beef, or mutton, or game; 
sour fruits, or vegetables in quantites 
must be prohibited, as also pastry and 
sweetmeats. Plenty of exercise in the 
open air is of essential service, but 
children should not be allowed to eat raw 
herbs, roots, and the like, which they are 
rso prone to pick up in their rambles. 



DISEASES OF THE ORGANS CONNECTED 



THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 

CATARRH, or COMMON COLD. 



This name is given to an affection which 
consists of a mild degree of inflammation 
of the mucous membrain of the nostrils, at 
times the windpipe, and occasionally 
extends to the lining membrane of the 
lungs, and is induced by exposure to sud- 
den changes of temperature, or to a damp 
and chilly atmosphere with insufficient 
clothing. This complaint is characterized 
by slight chills or shiverings, fever, Ian 
guor, pains in the head, back and 
extremities followed by watering of the 
eyes, discharge from the nose, hoarseness, 
wheezing, difficult breathing, cough, and 
in severe cases a good deal of expectora- 
tion. 

In many instances a cold is carried off, 
or runs its course in a few days. This 
desirable result is generally due to 



98 COLD. 

remaining in doors for a few days and 
encouraging a gentle perspiration by 
drinking some warm fluid, such as gruel 
and the like. Bathing the feet and legs 
in warm water is also a useful auxiliary 
mode of restoring perspiration, but the 
patient should be made warm in bed im- 
mediately afterwards. 

This is a very direct and satisfactory 
treatment at the beginning of colds for 
those who have the time to lay by and pay 
particular attention to the treatment, but 
for those who are obliged to go out it is 
more hazardous than is likely to be bene- 
ficial. Very robust persons who are 
accustomed to be in the open air in all 
weathers, but who have caught cold after 
having over-heated themselves, will fre- 
quently prevent any bad effects by 
drinking one or two glasses of cold water 
on going to bed. 

Treatment: — At the beginning of 
catarrh, or common cold, when there is 
chilliness, fever, sneezing, watering of 
the eyes, discharge from the nose, redness 
of the throat and slight cough, the cases 
that prescription 'F' will not relieve 
promptly are the exceptions to the rule, 



COLD. 99 

and so few are the exceptions that we can 
almost term it a specific. This remedy 
should be given at the first symptoms of 
the cold, and in many instances a few 
hours is all that is required to make a 
complete cure. In cases of some standing 
its action is not so prompt. 

Colds of some days standing, where 
there is dry, tickling, cough, with a good- 
deal of swelling and redness of the throat, 
prescription 'G ? is quite prompt in its 
action. It is further called for when there 
is headache of a throbing, bursting charac- 
ter aggravated from coughing, and all the 
symptoms worse from going into the open, 
cold air. 

Prescription 'D' is curative in colds of 
long standing where the following symp- 
toms are met with. Tickling or 
scratching irritation in the throat, dry 
cough in the morning, and sometimes 
during the day, rarely at night: occa- 
sionally a small quantity of adhesive 
mucous which is difficult to expectorate 
after a fit of coughing. This is also a 
medicine of great utility in catarrhal 
fever with a disposition to chilliness, or 
wandering fever chills, worse during 



100 INFLUENZA. 

movement, coming on and gradually 
increasing in the after part of the day s 
Warmth and rest mitigate the symptoms. 
Prescription 'B' has also proved itself 
to be a very useful medicine in colds of 
long standing, and is a little peculiar in 
being equally as efficious in dry hollow 
coughs, or loose coughs attended with 
copious expectoration. Coughs accom- 
panied with tenderness of the throat and 
chest, inclination to vomit, pains in the 
chest as if it would be racked to pieces, 
severe headache and aching in the limbs, 
are quickly abated by the use of this 
remedy. 

INFLUENZA. 



We understand by the term Influenza 
a disease much resembling catarrh or 
common cold, though more severe in its 
course and appearing in an epidemic 
form. In addition to the symptoms 
describing common cold, extreme oppres- 
sion and utter prostration of strength 
are complained of. Sleepiness, followed 
by shuddering and general chilli- 
ness, rheumatic pains, or pains as if 
caused by a bruise in the back and limbs, 



INFLUENZA. 101 

intense frontal headache, sometimes ex- 
tending to the bones of the face; giddiness, 
earache, redness of the eyes, with painful 
weight or heaviness and sensability to 
light; coryza, or obstruction of the nose, 
dry shaking cough which produces dis- 
tressing fatigue in the chest, dryness of 
the throat, and subsequently dry, burning- 
heat of the skin, loss of appetite, nausea, 
and in some cases offensive sweats, are 
all symptoms more or less prominent in 
this affection. 

Tkeatment: — Prescription 'F' is the 
best medicine to begin the treatment of 
this affection, when its symptoms are 
those of a common cold, and in mild cases 
will be sufficient of itself to make a com- 
plete cure. But when the trouble is 
strongly marked from its onset with 
extreme oppression and prostration of 
strength, we should unhesitatingly admin- 
ister prescription 'L'. This remedy is 
also indicated when there is profuse 
watery and corosive discharge from the 
nose, oppression of the chest, difficult 
breathing, thirst, anxiety and restless- 
ness. 

Prescription 'B' has often proved of 



102 CROUP. 

great service in relieving the violent, pres- 
sive aching, bursting, frontal headache f 
and dry hollow cough, or cough with 
easily loosened expectoration. It has 
further been found of great efficacy when 
the liver was affected, painful to the 
touch, or on coughing, or taking a deep 
inspiration, also when vomiting was 
liable to take place after or during 
coughing. 

"When the greatest suffering seems to 
be in the chest, with a hoarse hollow 
cough, brought on by tickling in the 
throat and attended with severe headache 
prescription 'D' comes in for its share of 
usefulness. It is also the remedy when 
the nose is obstructed, confusion in the 
head, giddiness, want of appetite, or sick 
stomach, thirst and constipation. 

CROUP. 



Croup consists of a peculiar inflamma- 
tion of the lining membrane of the 
windpipe, causing the secretion of a thick, 
viscid substance, generally opaque, of 
nearly the consistancy of the boiled white 
of an egg, which adheres to the parts and 
is difficult to expectorate. When this sub- 



CROUP. 103 

stance, generally denominated the false 
membrane, has been allowed to form, the 
case becomes extremely critical. The 
attack is generally very sudden, com- 
mencing with the symptoms of a cold, 
such as cough, sneezing and hoarseness, 
with a greater or less degree of fever. In 
a short time the cough changes it char- 
acter and becomes shrill and squeaking, 
or deep, hoarse or sonorous attended with 
a ringing sound during speaking and res- 
piration, as if the air was passing through 
a metalic tube. There is seldom much 
expectoration, and when any matter 
comes up during coughing it has a stringy 
appearance, resembling portions of a 
membrane. 

From the time inflammation sets in, 
considerable fever and restlessness con- 
tinue, never wholely remitting; the 
countenance expresses great anxiety and 
alternates from a red to a livid hue, the 
attacks are followed by profuse and 
clamy perspiration of the whole body, 
more particularly of the head and face. 

This well-known malady demands 
prompt treatment to avert danger. From 
the movement we are aware of its exis- 



104 CROUP. 

tence we should be up and doing. Quick 
relief can be had by prompt and properly- 
directed treatment, whereas, in a very 
short time it can be beyond the reach of 
hope. This is just one of the many 
instances that make the demand for 
these prescriptions in every family im- 
perative. 

Treatment: — If prescription 'F' be 
administered instantly, upon the first 
symptoms of croup, such as, sneezing, 
hoarseness and dry, barking cough, with 
increase of fever, the attack seldom ever 
goes beyond this stage. It is further indi- 
cated where the disease is more advanced 
and attended with great fever, burning 
heat, thirst, short dry cough, and hurried 
laborious breathing. 

In those cases not entirely relieved by 
the above medicine though the skin hav- 
ing become moist, or covered with a 
profuse sweat, the cough more loose and 
the breathing freer, but there still remains 
a dry, harsh, deep, hollow cough with a 
weak, hoarse voice and more or less diffi- 
culty of breathing, the cure can be 
completed with prescription 'P\ This 
remedy is also to be given in the advanced 



COUGH. 105 

stage of the disease when the breathing 
becomes exceedingly difficult, due to the 
accumulation of secretion, or the forma- 
tion of the false membrane in the throat, 
attended with nausea and vomiting of 
tough, viscid, or stringy substance. 

Prescription 'O' has been used with good 
results in preventing attacks of Croup in 
children subject to this affection; also in 
riding the system of the predisposition to 
this complaint. This medicine is often 
used in the last stage of the disease with 
happy results, making most perfect 
cures. 

COUGH. 

(Tussis.) 



Cough, although not dangerous of itself, 
may become so, or form an important 
feature of disease; and as a premonitor of 
consumption it is too often neglected. It 
may arise from an irritation, or disease of 
the air passages, or lungs, or from colds, 
or other causes, or merely sympathetic, or 
the consequence of derangements of other 
important organs. 

Treatment: — When we have a short, 
dry, barking, spasmodic, or nervous 



106 COUGH. 

cough, especially at night in bed, with 
irritation or tickling, or sensation as if 
a foreign body were there, or as if dust 
had been inhaled, prescription 'G' can be 
looked upon as a soverign remedy. It is 
also a useful medicine in cough with 
rattling of mucous in the chest, attended 
with fever and expectoration of thick, 
white mucous; spasmodic cough which 
scarcely allows time for breathing. 

Prescription *B ? is a wonderful curative 
agent in dry cough excited by constant 
irritation in the throat, or as if caused by 
vapour; cough after partaking of food, or 
drink, with pain in the chest and bursting 
headache, especially at the temples: cough 
occuring in very cold weather, and aggra- 
vation of the coughing in passing from a 
cold to a warm temperature. This medi- 
cine has also proven itself curative in 
cough with copious yellowish expectora- 
tion, or slight spitting of blood with pain 
in the side, or sides. 

Nervous, or spasmodic cough, attended 
with painful shocks in the head and 
stomach, and followed by nausea, vitch- 
ing and vomiting is quickly subdued with 
prescription 'P\ In children this remedy 



HOOPINGCOTJGH. 107 

is indispensible when they appear to be 
threatened with suffocation from the 
accumulation of mucus in the throat. 

Violent short cough with quick, hard 
pulse and feverish heat; pricking in the 
chest when coughing, or during inspira- 
tion^ promptly relieved with prescription 
'F\ This remedy should always be given 
for cough in fevers. 

Prescription 'IT is curative in cough 
arising from a deranged condition of the 
stomach or liver, or from a general 
relaxed, or run-down state of the system. 
It is particular indicated in cough arising 
from indigestion with sore throat, par- 
ticularly the back part of the throat. 

HOOPINGCOUGH, 

(Tussis Convulsiva.) 

This is a disease almost peculiar to child- 
hood, and is characterized by paroxysms 
of violent and convulsive expirations in 
rapid successions, interrupted by long 
whistling inspiration, and in young sub- 
jects a long shrill hoop, terminating by 
the expectoration of a quantity of mucus, 
or a fit of vomiting, after which the 
attack ceases for a time. If the case is 



108 HOOPINGCOUGH. 

severe the features swell and become 
livid, the eyes blood-shot, and in some 
cases blood escapes from the nose, mouth 
and ears. The paroxysms return every 
three or four hours, and oftener in severe 
cases, the least excitement bringing them 
on. Breathing is free during the intervals 
and the patient in every way healthy, 
although suffering from weakness. 

This affection generally appears as an 
epidemic ; and is by many physicians 
acknowledged to be communicable by 
contagion. Over many the attack passes 
lightly; but in the majority of cases it 
proves a distressing malady. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'G' is the 
most important remedy in Hoopingcough 
when there is dry, hollow, or harsh and 
barking cough, which becomes materially 
worse at night. It is also particularly 
well adapted to the sore throat which is 
not an unfrequent concomitant at the 
beginning of this affection. 

When the cough is attended with dan- 
ger of suffocation, and each inspiration 
appears to excite a fresh fit of coughing, 
prescription 'P' should at once be admin- 
istered. It is further indicated when the 



COUGH. 109 

fits are attended with spasmodic stiffness 
of the body and blueness of the face, great 
anxiety, and accumulation of mucus in 
the chest. 

Prescription 'D' renders good service 
when the cough is dry and very fatiguing, 
and attended with vomiting, particularly 
after midnight and towards morning; 
and when the paroxysms are so pro- 
tracted and violent as to produce apparent 
danger of suffocation with blueness of 
the face and occasional bleeding from the 
mouth and nos.e. 

Prescription 'F' may be had recourse to 
from time to time, when marked f ebril, 
or inflammatory symptoms are present, 
it being kept in mind that the action of 
this medicine is of short duration, and 
may be followed in a few hours by any of 
the above named remedies when they 
appear more particularly indicated. 

The diet must be light and of easy 
digestion, as nothing tends more to 
aggravate and prolong the suffering than 
a deranged state of the digestive system. 



110 BRONCHITIS 

Inflammation of the Mucous Membrane 
of the Bronchial Tubes. 

{Bronchitis*) 



This disease consists of a greater or 
less degree of inflammation of the mucous 
membrane of the tubes leading to the 
lungs. An acute attack sets in with 
chilliness, succeeded by fever, hoarseness, 
difficult breathing; severe, frequent and 
distressing cough, at first dry, or with 
scanty expectoration of frothy, or viscid 
mucus, which subsequently becomes 
copious and occasionally streaked with 
blood. The breathing is excessively 
laborious and attended with a feeling of 
constriction and oppression of the chest, 
which sometimes increase to such an 
extent as to threaten suffocation; general 
weakness, foul tongue and loss of appe- 
tite; paleness of the lips, cadaverous and 
anxious countenance, loud, wheezing, 
rattling, whistling, or harsh and broken 
respiration. The first symptoms of 
improvement are, a greater freedom of 
breathing with remission of fever, and 
an alteration in the expectoration, which 



BLONCHITIS. Ill 

becomes thicker, whiter and diminished 
in quantity. 

In chronic bronchitis the symptoms 
are much the same as the acute, but con- 
siderably less in severity, and its course, 
when not following the acute, is so insidi- 
ous as to make it often difficult to mark 
its commencement. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'F ? is the 
medicine upon which we must place our 
chief reliance in the inflammatory stage 
of this affection, and throughout its 
course whenever high fever continues. 
Its more marked indications are, hot, dry 
skin with strong, hard and accelerated 
pulse; hoarsness, with roughness of voice; 
short, dry cough and obstructed respira- 
tion. 

Prescription 'W is a great remedy in 
bronchitis,. and we should not hesitate to 
prescribe it immediately when we meet 
with laborious, rapid and anxious breath- 
ing with constant inclination to take a 
deep inspiration, hoarseness, headache, 
dry cough with burning pain from the 
throat to the middle of the breast, cough 
with scanty and difficult expectoration of 
viscid sputa and sometimes mixed with 



112 BRONCHITIS. 

blood, dryness of the mouth and lips., 
with excessive thirst. 

Prescription 'P' is a very valuable 
remedy in this affection and especially 
for children, but generally at a more 
advanced stage of the disease when there 
is accumulation of mucus in the chest> 
and when on coughing they are almost 
suffocated by the abundant secretion of 
mucus and become livid in the face; 
shortness of breath, and profuse pers- 
piration on the head after each fit of 
coughing. 

Prescription 'O' is a useful remedy in 
winding up a cure, and preventing the 
disease running on to the chronic form r 
or when the expectoration has increased 
in quantity and becomes whitish and less 
viscid. 

The diet to be observed should be the 
same as that mentioned under Fevers in 
the severe forms of bronchitis, but when 
the f ebril and inflammatory symptoms 
have subsided, the patient should 
gradually return to a nutritious diet, even 
though a considerable degree of cough 
and expectoration remain. 



LUNGS. 113 

Inflammation of the Lungs. 
(Pneumonia.) 



This disease consists in an inflamma- 
tion of the parenchyma, or body of the 
lungs, and is recognized by a chill, or 
chilly sensations, followed by heat; diffi- 
cult breathing, short and hurried; short 
cough, continuous and distressing, dry at 
first, afterwards attended with scanty 
expectoration of viscid, lumpy tenacious, 
or glutenous mucus of various shades of 
color, but mostly of a dingy brick-red, or 
rusty hue. The cough is excited or 
aggravated by every deep inspiration, or 
on every attempt to speak, the speech is 
interrupted, or there is a pause after 
every articulation. A dull pain is felt 
occasionally in the chest, but more fre- 
quently rather a tightness than pain; the 
pulse is variable sometimes not beyond 
the normal standard, but more generally 
full, strong and quick at the commence- 
ment, or, when the inflammation runs 
high, hard, wiry and greatly accelerated, 
the tongue dry, parched and dark colored. 
The fever is usually of the inflammatory 
type, but is sometimes of a low grade 



114 LUNGS. 

The patient, particularly in a severe 
attack, lies upon his back. 

Such are the general symptoms of 
uncomplicated Pneumonia, but in severe 
cases it is often found combined with 
pleurisy, in which case the pains in the 
chest are intense and generally of an 
acute, shooting character. Another, and 
still more frequent complication is 
formed with bronchitis, and then we find 
some of the symptoms of that disease. 
We also meet with this affection where 
it assumes the typhoid character, the 
local symptoms then are very obscure, 
and the accompanying fever of a low 
grade, the pulse quick and very weak, the 
skin dry or clamy, the tongue brown and 
parched, and the urine greatly dimin- 
ished in quantity and of a high color. 

Treatment: — At the beginning of this 
disease, in the stage of inflammatory 
congestion, whether or not accompanied, 
or followed by severe shooting pains in 
the chest, prescription 'F' should be 
given for a time until the fever is some- 
what abated, or a slight moisture is 
observed upon the skin, If the fever 
returns after having been apparently 



LUNGS. 115 

subdued by the above prescription, with 
difficult breathing, and pain, or feeling of 
uneasiness in the chest, the sputa tinged 
with blood, and difficult to expectorate, 
the cheeks flushed, lips and tongue dry 
the skin hot, and the thirst incessant, 
prescription 'G' must be resorted to. In 
young and fleshy subjects these two 
medicines may be given in alternation 
with the most satisfactory results during 
the first, or congestive stage of this 
disease. 

Prescription 'B' is the appropriate 
remedy in pneumonia when the cough is 
attended with expectoration of viscid, or 
tenacious mucus of a brick dust color; 
oppression of the chest accompanied with 
acute shooting pains, or rheumatic pains 
in the muscles of the chest and extremi- 
ties with increase of pain on moving, foul 
tongue, constipation and other signs of 
gastric derangement. When the acute 
spmptoms of the disease have subsided, 
but the fever has assumed a low grade 
with alternate dry and clamy skin, we 
should hasten to administer prescription 
T to prevent a complication with typhoid 
and insure a speedy return to health. 



116 PLEURISY. 

Prescrption 'O' is a remedy that come 
in well often in the winding up of diseas^ 
and making goo*d a complete cure. It 
has also proved itself of great service at 
any stage of disease in strumous, or 
scrofulous constitutions. 

During the inflammatory stage of this 
disease almost total abstinance from food 
must be enjoined; even during convales- 
cence there is caution required, and care 
must be taken not to over-indulge the 
returning appetite. The drinks should 
consist of water, toast water, or rice 
water, sweetened with a little sugar if 
desired. 

Inflammation of the Pleura, 
{Pleurisy. Pleuritis.) 

We understand by this term an inflam- 
mation of the membrane that lines the 
walls of the chest and reflects over the 
lungs. 

It is characterized by severe cutting, 
lancinating pain in the side, generally 
confined to one circumscribed spot, inter- 
ferring with breathing and acutely 
increased by taking a deep inspiration, or 
by coughing; difficult and anxious respi- 



PLEURISY. 117 

ration, but not so oppressed as in 
pneumonia and bronchitis; quick, hard 
pulse, hot skin particularly over the chests 
or seat of the disease; short, dry coughs 
parched tongue, scanty and high colored 
urine and occasionally delirium. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'F' is an 
indespensible medicine in allaying the 
inflammatory fever and acute pain atten- 
dant on pleurisy, as in many instances, 
when timely administered, sufficient of 
itself to cure the disease. It rarely fails 
to make a favorable impression in from 
six to eight hours, and in most instances 
in less than half the time. Prescription 
'B' follows the above remedy well when 
the pain in the chest is shooting, cutting > 
burning, or aching in its character much 
increased during inspiration, or move- 
ment; dry cough followed by expectora- 
tion of dirty yellow colored mucuss 
streaked, or tinged with blood; oppression 
and anxious breathing; yellow tongue;: 
bitter taste, nausea and sometimes vomit- 
ing of mucus; headache, head confused, 
great thirst and bowels constipated. In 
the few cases where prescription 'F' fails 
to relieve the fever and acute pain, it 



118 HEMORRHAGE. 

will be accomplished by alternating these 
two medicines. 

Prescription 'L' is the remedy on which 
we mainly depend in those serious cases 
when effusion, to a great extent has taken 
place, in the plural membrane, when the 
breathing is painfully impeded and 
asthmatic, attended with extreme pros- 
tration of strength. 

Prescription 'O' here, too, comes in for 
its share of usefulness in making a good 
cure. An occasional case will be met 
with when the above medicines fail to do 
more than relieve the disease of its acute 
symptoms without wholly subduing the 
inflammation. In such instances, this 
medicine is the sufferers best friend. 

Hemorrhage from the Lungs. 



This affection may arise from an effu- 
sion of blood from the mucous membrane 
of the bronchial tubes, or from a conges- 
tion of the lungs, or from the rupture of 
a blood-vessel in the lungs during the 
course of consumption. We must be 
careful not to confound this affection 
with diseases of the mouth or gums, or 
the occurrence of blood from the nose 



HEMORRHAGE. 119 

escaping through the posterior nares and 
being returned by the mouth. When the 
blood proceeds from the chest it is almost 
invariably attended with a sensation as 
if it came from a deep seated source, is 
warm, generally tastes sweet, and there 
is frequently a simultaneous burning and 
painful sensation in the chest. 

We propose to deal generally with the 
subject and give the treatment indicated 
by the symptoms present. When the 
attack is preceded by well-known pre- 
monitory symptoms, the patient should 
refrain from loud or prolonged speaking, 
calling, singing, blowing wind instru- 
ments, violent exercise of the arms, 
running, or, in short, anything calculated 
to increase the respiratory action, or 
otherwise fatigue the chest. In by far 
the greater majority of cases the dis- 
charge, or spitting of blood soon ceases 
of its own accord, the most important 
object therefore is to seek the cure of the 
complaint when the hemorrhage has 
ceased and thereby prevent its return. 

Treatment: — The well-known property 
of common salt to check spitting of blood 
is as efficacious in ordinary attacks as 



120 HEMORRHAGE. 

any remedy we are acquainted with. A 
small quantity placed upon the tongue 
and allowed to dissolve and gradually to 
he swallowed is generally sufficient for 
its arrest. When the salt fails to relieve 
and the discharge amounts to an actual 
hemorrhage of bright red blood, prescrip- 
tion C M' will be found to act 
promptly. Spitting of blood in females 
arising from suppression of the 
monthly discharge, or in either sex, 
when from the suppression of bleed- 
ing piles, will find its corrective in 
prescription 'H.' This medicine will also 
relieve this affection from whatever cause, 
when the expectoration is of dark clotted 
blood, attended with shivering, especially 
at night, and pain in the lower part of the 
chest. 

Prescription 'L' should be administered 
when the anxiety, anguish, palpitation 
of the heart, and bleeding continue, or 
increase after the employment of other 
remedies. This is a valuable medicine to 
restore the vital energies of the patient 
after considerable loss of blood. 



CONSUMPTION. 121 

CONSUMPTION. 

(Phthisis*) 



One of the earliest symptoms of con- 
sumption is a short cough, which is either 
dry, or accompanied by the expectoration 
of a frothy mucus, and is generally 
slight at the commencement, but more 
or less constant. Shortness of breath, 
proceeding from obstruction, is another 
early symptom of consumption. At first 
it is only experienced during exertion, 
but subsequently comes on after every fit 
of coughing, or on lying on the one or the 
other side, and is much increased by 
the slightest movement. Symptoms of 
stomach derangement are frequently 
present, with redness of the tongue, or 
with furred centre; the patient falls off in 
flesh, becomes- indolent, dejected, and 
overpowered with languor. A feeling of 
soreness is 'often complained of in the 
chest, particularly, after any fatigue, or 
after a fit of coughing, and sometimes on 
exposure to cold air. 

The pulse is often normal at the begin- 
ning, of the ^disease, but soon becomes 
full, hard, and accelerated. Fever of an 



122 CONSUMPTION. 

intermittent character soon makes its 
appearance; it declares itself most 
towards night, remits from about two in 
the morning until the following day at 
noon, when it returns in a slight degree 
and continues until about five in the after- 
noon, and is then followed by an other 
remission. This hectic fever is, in the 
first instance, chiefly manifested by flush- 
ing of the face, heat in the palms of the 
hands and soles of the feet; but as the 
disease advances, night-sweats supervene,, 
which leave the patient in a state of great 
exhaustion in the morning. As the 
expectoration increases it becomes mora 
viscid and opague, and is often tinged 
with blood, or a considerable quantity of 
florid frothy blood is ejected. As the dis- 
ease advances the respiration becomes 
more difficult, the emaciation and debility 
go on increasing, the cough is rendered 
more severe and troublesome, particu- 
larly at night, and the fever, though of 
shorter duration, is attended with more 
profuse sweating and the pulse loses tone. 
The expectoration becomes, at the same 
time, more free and copious, and is less 
thin and transparent. 



CONSUMPTION.' 123 

In the suppurative, or last stage of the 
disease, the expectoration at first resem- 
bles curd, or cheese-like particles and 
subsequently is mixed with pus, mucus 
and frequently with blood. The bowels, 
from having been constipated from the 
commencement of the disease, are now 
more prone to be relaxed, so that attacks 
of diarrhea recur frequently, and by alter- 
nating with the night-sweats induce an 
•excessive degree of weakness. In this 
stage of the disease the patient becomes 
reduced to a skeleton; the face is thinned, 
the cheek bones prominent, the eyes look 
hollow; the hair falls off, and the feet and 
legs are quite much swollen, but notwith- 
standing all this the countenance presents 
a degree of clearness, and the eyes a lus- 
ter that are rarely, if ever, met with in 
other maladies, and the mind is generally 
serene and hopeful, that the patient 
seems often quite unconscious of his dan- 
gerous condition, and speaks and acts as if 
in full anticipation of a speedy recovery. 

It is in the first and second stages of 
"this disease, particularly the first; that we 
should work and hope for recovery, for 
in the third, or last stage all hope desert 



124 -CONSUMPTION. 

us. There are claiifts of cures even in this 
stage, but we confess never to have been 
so successful. 

Change of climate often works won- 
ders in the early stage of the disease. 
Many medical men recommend warm 
climates, or well sheltered situations, 
even although the atmosphere might be 
of a humid and relaxing nature, we are 
inclined to side with those who do not 
object to a somewhat bracing and cold 
atmosphere provide it be dry and not too 
changeable temperature. Daily exercise 
in the open air should not be neglected, 
and the practice of inflating the lungs 
two, or three times a day gives tone and 
strength to them that can not be derived 
from any other source. 

Treatment : — Prescription k B' should 
be given in the earliest symptoms of this 
disease when the cough is short and dry, 
or accompanied by the scanty expectora- 
tion of frothy mucus; shortness of breath 
particularly after coughing, or exercising; 
loss of appetite, bitter taste, headache 
and bowels constipated. 

Prescription 'L' is a very useful medi- 
cine in this disease when strongly marked 



ASTHMA. 125 

by loss of flesh and utter prostration; 
hectic fever and debilitating night-sweats; 
incessant cough with copious expectora- 
tion of a yellowish green color; variable 
appetite and bowels changeable from con- 
stipation to diarrhea. 

When there is oppression at the chest, 
laborious breathing and no expectoration 
of mucus chiefly at night, prescription 
'O' should be given. This is also a use- 
ful medicine when the expectoration is 
copious of white frothy substance. 

ASTHMA. 



This affection is said to be caused by 
an irritation of the vagus nerve, a nerve 
going to supply the lungs, and is charac- 
terized by the following phenomena; 
difficulty of breathing, recuring in 
paroxysms, attended with a sensation of 
suffocating constriction in the chest, 
cough and wheezing. The paroxysms are 
frequently preceded by a sense of cold- 
ness, languor, headache, heaviness over 
the eyes; sickness, or flatulency and a 
sense of oppression in the chest. During 
the attack the patient feels much worse 
in the recumbant nosture and conse- 



126 ASTHMA. . 

quently sits up, requests the doors, or 
windows to be thrown open to admit 
more air into his apartment, and uses 
every effort to dilate and empty the lungs. 
He also experiences great restlessness, 
making frequent efforts to force some* 
thing out of the air passages which he 
thinks impedes breathing by coughing* 
The face is pale, or livid, and wears an 
anxious expression. The extremities and 
even the nose and ears are frequently 
cold, and the face and chest covered with 
perspiration; the heart palpitates, the 
pulse is variable, being quick, full, or 
small, and quick, or weak and irregular, 
often intermitting. These symptoms 
continue with greater, or less degree of 
violence for some hours, or even days 
until expectoration takes place which 
affords relief as it increases in quantity. 
A remission also sometimes takes place 
soon after an excession of copious pers- 
piration, or a profuse discharge of urine. 
The disease is more frequently met at 
an advanced, than an early stage of lif e„ 
and oftener in men than woman. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'L' perhaps 
has done more for sufferers of Asthma 



ASTHMA. 127 

than any other medicine, and is particu- 
larly indicated when there is great 
exhaustion and anguish, as if at the 
point of suffocation, with cold perspira- 
tion; spasmodic constriction in the chest 
and throat which is soon followed by 
laborious, panting and whistling res- 
piration. 

Prescription 'P' is called for in this 
affection when the cough is constant, no 
phlegm yielding, although the chest 
seems full of -it; cough causing gaging, 
vomiting, followed by relief; stiffness of 
the whole body in children; cold extremi- 
ties and cold perspiration. 

Prescription 'D' is strongly indicated 
when the attack occurs suddenly at night 
arousing the patient from a sleep full of 
dreams, with a suffocating tightness, 
especially at the lower part of the chest. 
This medicine is further indicated in 
individuals who lead a sedentary life and 
are fond of strong drinks; headache, poor 
digestion and constipation. 

The simple procedure of holding the 
breath as long as possible will often 
relieve an attack of Asthma. This the 
sufferer will find difficult at first to do* 



128 HEART DISEASE. 

as the desire to breath is so great, but in 
the end he will often find himself amply 
repaid for the effort. By this simple act 
the accumulation of carbon in the lungs 
produces the relaxing effect so anxiously 
desired. 



DISEASES OF THE 

CIRCULATING SYSTEM. 



HEART DISAESE. 

(Pericarditis* Endocarditis. 
Carditis.) 



Pericarditis is an inflammation of the 
membrane that envelops the heart and 
retains it in position, and is a disease 
frequently not well marked in its external 
characters. 

Endocarditis is an inflammation of the 
lining membrane of the heart, and is a 
disease with external manifestations 
still more uncertain and obscure than 
those of Pericarditis. Carditis is an 
inflammation of the substance of the 
heart, and is found always in connection 
with one or the other of these mem- 
braneous affections. 

Very few are the medical men that can 
always diagnose these three diseases cor- 
rectly so similiar are their manifestations 
and so many symptoms have they in 



130 HEART DISEASE. 

common. Were it possible for us to 
describe these three affections so that the 
average reader would be able to recog- 
nize them apart we then would have 
gained but little, since at the present 
state of medical knowledge the same 
medicines are used for all three affec- 
tions so we will content ourselves with 
pointing to the medicines called for by 
certain symptoms. 

Treatment: — In acute heart troubles 
accompanied with high fever, full, hard, 
vibrating pulse; pain of a sharp, or 
pricking character with oppression, 
anxiety, f aintness, and tumultuous action 
of the heart, we find quick relief from 
the use of prescription 'F, 9 but in ple- 
thoric subjects of sanguine temperament 
with determination of blood to the head, 
red face, throbing pulsations through the 
body, and occasional delirium it may be 
found necessary to alternate with pre- 
scription 'G'. 

Prescription 4 U is one of the most 
important of our remedies in diseases of 
the heart, and we would say, is all but 
indespensible when there is valvular 
trouble. It is strongly indicated when 



NERVOUS PALPITATION. 131 

the attack has arisen from metastases of 
gout, or rheumatism, or from the sup- 
pression of some eruption, and is par- 
ticularly indicated when there is vio- 
lent palpitation, excessive rapidity of 
pulse, intense thirst, burning pain in 
the region of the heart, anxiety, 
fainting, extreme restlessness, or in the 
more advanced stage of the disease when 
the breathing is hurried and laborious, 
particularly on the slightest movement* 
and there is an inability to lye on the left 
side, pulse feeble and irregular. 

Prescription 'J' is a remedy used a 
great-deal in affections of the heart, and 
is prompted by slight pain, aching and 
heaviness about the heart; palpitation 
with great anxiety forcing the patient to 
get out of bed; palpitation with dimin- 
ished, or enfeabled action of the heart; 
congestion to the head, noises and roaring 
in the ears; scarcely perceptible beat- 
ing of the heart, very soft, weak and 
intermittent. 

Nervous Palpitation of the Heart. 



This affection occurs in spells and is 
generally more distinctly felt by the 



132 NERVOUS PALPITATION. 

patients themselves than by the exam- 
ining hand of the physician. It is 
purely a sympathetic trouble, but one 
productive of a good-deal of scare. When 
-during the attack the patient's face is red, 
then the pulse is full and strong, whilst 
when the patient looks pale the pulse is 
weak and intermittent. We often find it 
accompanied with dizziness; roaring 
noises in the head; headache; flickering 
before the eyes; trembling; fainting 
spells; and pressure and choking sensa- 
tion in the throat; the patient complains 
of a sensation as though the heart were 
jumping up into the throat. 

The causes of this affection are num- 
erous. It is met most frequently in 
anaemic andchlorotic individuals; also in 
women during the period of change of 
life,* in hysterical females, and in diseases 
of the womb. Spinal irritation may also 
cause it, and we find it in children who 
grow very fast, or whose intestines are 
irritated by worms. Very often it is 
brought on by mental emotions, and 
sometimes we do not know any cause 
whatever. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'D' is gen- 
erally sufficient of itself to control an 



ANGINA. PECORIS. 133 

attack of nervous palpitation of the 
heart, but occasionally we are obliged to 
change to prescription 'F', and in 
extreme cases to alternate prescription 
<F' and 'J' before relief is obtained. 

These medicines are simply given to 
control palpitation, the object, however, 
should be to seek the cause and remove 
it. In anaemic and chlorotic individuals, 
prescriptions 'C and 'D' will be found to 
work a great change in the system, good 
nutritious food and a plenty of out-door 
exercise come in for their share of praise 
in such cases. When the trouble arises 
in females, either from change of life, 
from diseases of the womb, or from hys- 
teria, prescription 'H7 will be fonnd a 
useful medicine, and in children, when 
due to irritation of the intestines from 
worms, prescriptions f O ? and 'S' will prove 
curative. 

ANGINA. PECTORIS. 



The suffering of this distressing malady 
is always severe and sometimes excru- 
ciating. The paroxysm usually comes on 
in the following manner; the patient is 
suddenly seized with an agonizing, aching 



134 ANGINA. PECOKIS. 

pain in the middle of the breast, a little to 
the left, which almost takes his breath 
away, and obliges him to keep perfectly 
still. Gradually increasing in violence, 
the pain spreads in most cases from the 
middle of the breast to the left 
side and shoulders and thence 
down the arm into the hand, and 
in severe cases to both shoulders and 
arms. The pain is attended with the 
greatest agony, and difficulty of breath- 
ing; the patients face looks pale and 
collapsed, the front part of the head 
covers with cold perspiration, his 
limbs grow cold and he complains of suf- 
focation and constriction in the chest. 

In the early career of the affection the 
paroxysms are commonly only brought 
on by some exertion, such as walking up 
a hill, but when it has reached a more 
advanced stage the most trivial degree 
of excitement, as also an error in diet, 
such as partaking of some indigestible 
article of food is sufficient to excite an 
attack; and finally the incursions come on 
suddenly and unexpectedly without any 
manifest cause, even when in bed and 
during slumber. In the milder forms of 



ANGINA. PECORIS. 135 

the disease the attacks terminate in from 
a few minutes to half an hour, but in 
those of a severe character they continue 
for several hours, and in some cases the 
unfortunate patient is never perfectly 
free from distressing uneasiness and con- 
striction in the chest. 

Physicians are somewhat puzzled as to 
the cause of this peculiar affection, but 
most of them concur in the belief that it 
is due to some organic affection of the 
heart of various nature, such as, aneurism, 
fatty degeneration of the heart, etc. Its 
presence, therefore, affords no conclu- 
sion as to the nature of the heart trouble. 
Subjects of this disease are mostly men 
passed forty years of age and who are 
inclined to grow fat. 

Treatment: — During the paroxysms 
prescription 'L' answers our purpose bet- 
ter than any other medicine. Under its 
action the attacks shorten in duration 
and grow much less in severity. This 
remedy is particularly indicated when 
there is great difficulty in breathing from 
the slightest movement, and when 
the slightest movement, even turning in 
bed renews the attack; palpitation, 



136 ANGINA. PECORIS. 

extreme anguish, and a feeling of impen- 
ding danger; paleness of the face, 
haggard and contracted features, great 
debility with feeble, irregular, or inter- 
mittent pulse. 

In more advanced cases, or in those in 
which the attack comes on suddenly 
without any assignable reason, prescrip- 
tion M' offers to be of great service, also 
when the interval between the paroxysms 
decreases in length with the duration of 
the disorder. 

Prescription T)' has also proved itself a 
useful remedy in this affection when the 
patient is suddenly seized; he sits in 
speechless agony, his hands clasped over 
the region of the heart, his eyes protru- 
ded, and his face livid; the pulse weak, 
scarcely perceptible and intermittent; 
after a while the spasm relaxes and more 
or less palpitation follows and 1 he patient 
recovers for a time, soon to experience 
the same over and over again 

There are a number of other heart 
troubles of a secondary nature ; such as 
fatty degeneration of the heart, hypertro- 
phy, or enlargement of the heart, valvu- 
lar disease of the heart, etc. , having for 



ANGINA. PECORIS. 137 

their origin a badly treated case of one 
of the three first named diseases, peri- 
carditis, eudocaditis, or cariditis, and 
their treatment can be found under these 
diseases. 



DISEASES OF THE 

URINARY AND GENITAL 

ORGANS. 



Inflammation of the Kidneys. 
(Nephritis.) 

Chill followed by fever is the com- 
mencement. Pain in the small of the 
back in the region of the kidney, or 
kidneys when both are affected. This 
pain in aggravated by pressure, motion, 
coughing, sneezing, or a deep inhalation; 
it extends along the side from the kidney 
to the bladder and frequently down to 
the thigh and upwards into the shoulder 
of the affected, side. Constant painful 
urging to void urine* which passes off in 
very small quantities only, is dark, thick 
and usually mixed with blood. In high 
degrees of inflammation, or if both kid- 
neys are affected there may ensue a 
complete supression of urine, in which 
case soon follow, nausea, vomiting and 



KIDNEYS. 139 

• 

sometimes delirium and even convul- 
sions. In chronic inflammation of the 
kidneys the symptoms are much the same 
as the above, but much less in severity. 

Treatment : — In the inflammatory 
stage of this affection when the fever 
runs high, prescription 'F ? should be 
given and continued until the fever 
abates. 

When shooting pains are felt in the 
kidneys extending to the bladder, and 
when the inflammation is accompanied 
with colic, heat and distension in the 
region of the kidneys, scanty urination; 
the urine presenting an orange yellow, 
or sometimes a bright red color and 
depositing red, or whitish, thick sedimnet, 
prescription 'G' is the remedy to be given. 
This is also the medicine indicated in 
extreme inflammation with scanty, or 
suppressed urine, nausea, vomiting, or 
delirium. 

Prescription 'W will be found a very 
important remedy in this affection in 
females, when connected with some irre- 
gularity of the monthly period, or when 
there is complete suppression of the 
courses. 



140 BLADDER. 

• 

In fast livers, persons fond of rich food, 
wine and liquors, and who lead sedentary 
lives will often find their best friend in 
prescription 'D', and where we find con- 
stipation, feeling of faintness, nausea, 
vomiting with distension of the abdomen. 
This remedy should also have a trial 
when the affection has arisen from the 
suppression of some discharge, such as 
bleeding piles, etc. 

Patients suffering from Nephritis 
should strictly avoid wine, malt and 
spiritous liquors. 

Inflammation of the Bladder. 

{Cystitis.) 

This affection is characterized by pain 
in the region of the bladder, which is 
made worse from external pressure and 
motion; frequently this pain extends 
around the side to the kidneys and down 
through the urethra. The urine is voided 
drop by drop under great straining and a 
feeling as though scalding fluid were 
passing. It is high colored, hot and occa- 
sionally mixed with blood and mucus. At 
its height it causes high fever, vomiting, 
prostration, cold perspiration, hiccough 



BLADDER. 141 

and in some cases delirium. In the 
chronic form it is not so painful, but 
always attended with frequent desire to 
urinate, and the urine seldom of a natural 
appearance. 

Treatment : — We should have recourse 
to prescription 'F' in the inflammatory- 
stage of the disease, recognized by high 
fever and full, rapid pulse, but in a few 
hours when the fever has somewhat 
abated, we should change to the next 
most appropriate remedy. 

Prescription 'H' is valuable in checking 
the development of this affection when 
arising from suppressed mensis, or 
courses, and in all cases from whatever 
cause arising when the following symp- 
toms are present, frequent desire to 
urinate, painful and scanty emissions of 
slimy, or bloody urine w T hich deposits a 
brick-red sediment, burning and cutting 
pain in the region of the bladder with 
external heat and swelling, complete 
suppression of urine. 

When the trouble is attributable to high 
living, too free use of wine and spiritous 
liquors, prescription 'D' should be admin- 
istered, and its timelv use will often check 



142 DISCHARGING THE URINE. 

its further progress. It is also curative 
when it results from suppressed bleeding 
piles, or other habitual discharges, or 
from dyspeptic derangements. 

In long standing cases of inflammation 
of the bladder where there are no acute 
symptoms we have no medicine that 
offers to do more than prescription '0\ 
We have seen wonderful cures take place 
under its use when almost everything 
else had been tried. 

Difficulty in Discharging the Urine. 
(Dysuria, Stranguria.) 

Difficulty in discharging the urine may 
arise from various causes, such as, inflam- 
mation of the urethra, or channel through 
which the urine passes, or inflammation 
of the kidneys or bladder, excess in drink- 
ing intoxicating beverages, from the 
lodgment of particles of gravel at the neck 
of the bladder, from the abuse of Cantha- 
rides, either externally or internally, etc. 
This complaint is commonly attended 
with frequent inclination to urinate, with 
smarting pain, heat and difficulty in void- 
ing the water and a sense of fulness in 
the bladder. When this affection is in- 



DIRCHARGING THE URINE. 143 

duced by the presence of gravel in the 
kidney, or at the neck of the bladder, 
nausea or vomiting, and a sharp pain in 
the small of the back, usually accompany 
the before mentioned symptoms. As the 
the trouble is almost always sympathetic 
the treatment must be directed against 
the primary affection. 

Treatment: —When there is frequent in- 
clination to make water, with great pain 
and difficulty in voiding it, the discharge 
being at the same time very small in 
quantity, often passed only in drops and 
presenting a dark red, muddy appearance 
the symptoms will generally yield to 
prescription 'F\ But when a sense of 
fulness in the region of the bladder is 
complained of, together with a cutting, 
burning or aching pain with an almost 
inability to pass water, prescription 'H' 
acts promptly; and when a darting or 
pricking pain extending from the small 
of the back through to the bladder, with 
symptoms of colic, high fever, fulness in 
the head and occasional delirium with 
difficult and at times suppressed urina- 
tion, prescription 'G' is unhesitatingly 
the medicine. 



144 INCONTINENCE OF URINE. 

When the affection can be traced to 
dissipation, the excessive use of malt or 
spiritous liquors, or to the suppression of 
some eruption or discharge, prescription 
'D' can be relied upon. 

INCONTINENCE OF URINE. 



Involuntary flow of urine usually pro- 
ceeds from relaxation, or a paralytic 
affection of the bladder, or from irrita- 
tion or compression of the bladder in 
consequence of the secretion of acrid 
urine. The presence of gravel, or a 
diseased state of the organ itself will also 
at times produce it. 

Treatment: — When the incontinence 
proceeds from relaxation, brought on by 
a too free use of stimulants, considerable 
relief, if not a complete cure, can be ef- 
fected by the use of prescription 'D' . 

Prescription 'O' follows this medicine 
splendidly, often making complete cures. 

The incontinence of urine, which pro- 
ceeds from paralysis of the bladder, or is 
attendant on more general paralytic 
derangement, requires prescription 'G' for 
its cure. Prescription 'O' is also a very 
useful medicine in this form of the trouble. 



KIDNEYS. 1 45 

If Inflammation about the neck of the 
bladder and urethra give rise to the 
affection, prescription 'F'should be admin- 
istered, and in chronic inflammation we 
would still cling to prescription ( 0\ This 
is the greatest of all remedies for the gen- 
eral treatment of this affection. 

Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. . 

This disease is known by pain, weak- 
ness and lassitude in the loins, pale and 
anaemic appearance of the skin and 
mucous membranes; pale, yellow, or 
watery colored urine, foaming easily 
when agitated, and retaining its foam a 
long time; by adding a few drops of nitric 
acid it coagulates on being heated, and 
in the advanced stage is full of minute 
shreds or casts from the diseased kidneys; 
dropsy, sometimes very slight, generally 
commencing in the eyelids and face, or 
on the feet, frequently changing location, 
so that whilst in the evening the feet are 
the parts mostly swollen we may find the 
swelling greater on the back, hands, or 
face in the morning. 

This peculiar shifting dropsical tend- 
ency, liable to affect any part of the body, 

5 



146 DIABETES. 

and the albumen in the urine, detected by 
the acid and heat, are the strong charac- 
teristics of this disease. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'L' is truly 
a wonderful medicine in this justly 
dreaded disease, and if administered in 
the early stage of the affection, strong 
hope of a speedy cure can be entertained. 
Under its employment we have often wit- 
nessed the dropsy and albumen in the 
urine, grow beautifully less, and a rapid 
progress to a complete cure. 

Prescription 'K' is also a most valuable 
remedy in this affection when in conse- 
quence of exposure to cold, and when the 
stomach seems to sympathize much with 
the trouble, nausea, vomiting and head- 
ache. 

Prescription 'D' comes in for its share 
of usefulness in this trouble when arising 
from high living, too free indulgence in 
rich food and strong drinks. 

DIABETES. 



This is an affection characterized by 
an excessive discharge of urine contain- 
ing sugar; excessive thirst, and great 
hunger; dry skin and want of natural 



DIABETES. 147 

warmth; stools small in quantity and 
hard; constant wasting away of flesh, 
and mind depressed and peevish. At its 
height the mouth becomes hot and sore, 
and if the disease be not checked consump- 
tion will soon follow and put an end to 
the scene. Physicians are yet in the 
dark concerning the origin of this disease. 
Some go in one direction and some in 
an other in search of its cause, but as yet 
•nothing definite is known. 

Tkeatment: — Prescription 'K'has done 
us greater help in this disease than any 
other medicine, and in many instan- 
ces it has relieved all the symptoms 
of diabetes including the excessive quan- 
tity of sugar in the urine. We have also 
afforded great relief in this affection with 
prescription 'J', but never to our knowl- 
edge made a complete cure. Our chief 
reliance should be placed in prescription 
'K' in this somewhat peculiar affection. 
Physicians recommend total abstinence 
of starchy and saccharine food, and the 
exclusive use of meat, fish, eggs, etc. 
This decreases the sugar in the urine 
because it takes away the material for 
its formation, but what power it exerts 



148 DIABETES. 

over the tendency to that formation we 
are unable to say. No harm, however, 
can be done by following the direction, 
and if any result follows it must be a ben- 
eficial one. 



CUTANEOUS DISEASES. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE SKIN. 
(Erythema.) 

This affection is characterized by a 
diffused redness of the skin, which, under 
the pressure of the finger, disappears, 
and leaves not a white, but a yellow spot 
which at once grows red again, and is 
always attended with more or less burn- 
ing pain. 

Erythema is caused by exposure to 
heat, the rays of the sun, and by differ- 
ent irritating substances. It is often met 
with in young children between the folds 
of the skin as well as in very fat people. 
We also find it in consequence of pres- 
sure from lying long in one position, as 
in severe illness, upon the hips and other 
prominent parts of the body. So also do 
we observe it in consequence of acrid 
discharges from the eyes, nose, bowels 
and genitals upon the adjacent parts. 



150 SKIN. 

Treatment: — When this inflammation 
is produced by heat, pressure, or other 
external irritations, the direct application 
of some cool soothing lotion is generally 
sufficient to remedy the trouble, such as, 
the free use of cold water, the application 
of cold cream, or sprinkling the inflamed 
surface with a little "Subnitrate of Bis- 
muth." If the inflammation is of an 
aggravated character the application of 
prescription 'M' will be found sufficient 
for its cure. We must, of course, do away 
with the cause, if that be possible. 

When this trouble is due to an acrid 
discharge, or if the perspiration is unheal- 
thy, which is frequently noticeable by 
some peculiar odor, prescription 4 0' will 
in the majority of instances make a quick 
and complete cure. 

When the redness seems to expand in 
rays, and an acute shooting pain with 
heat and tingling in the affected part, 
which is aggravated by movement, pre- 
scription 'G' should be administered. 
This remedy is also curative when there 
is burning heat and swelling of the skin, 
violent headache, thirst, dry, hot skin and 
restlessness. 



ERUPTION. 151 

Prescription 'H' is indicated when the 
color of the skin is less intense, or of a 
blueish red, frequently disappearing from 
one place to reappear in another. 

Vesicular, and Pustular Eruptions. 
(Eczema- Impetigo.) 

These two eruptions are so similar in 
appearances and results, their cause 
and treatment being the same, make it 
difficult for the experienced medical man 
always to say where one leaves off, and 
the other begins, so we have concluded to 
speak of them under this head. 

These eruptions consist in a diffused 
superficial inflammation of the skin 
which cause numerous little vesicles, or 
pustules upon an inflammed surface; 
sometimes these vesicles and pustules are 
intermingled, at others the exudation 
may not be abundant enough to raise into 
vesicles, or pustules, but only loosen the 
superficial layer of the skin so that it dies 
off and forms a scaly surface. Direct 
irritation of the skin by too hot tempera- 
ture, hot baths; the continued application 
of wet bandages, the rubbing in of mercu- 
rial saWe, or crotonoil, and various other 



152 ERUPTION. 

irritating substances are their chief 
causes. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'G' is our 
chief reliance in the first stage of this 
affections, and by its early administra- 
tion the formation of vesicles, or pustules 
are often prevented. It is particularly 
indicated by shooting pain, heat, burning 
and tingling in the part affected. 

Prescription 'L' is the remedy called 
for when the disease is further advanced 
with great heat and burning pain, and 
the beginning, or formation of numerous 
vesicles, or pustules. This remedy should 
be continued until the burning, heat, 
pain and vesicles, or pustules are rapidly 
disappearing. 

When the pustules, or vesicles have 
disappeared, leaving a scaly, or scabby 
surface, we turn our attention to prescrip- 
tion 'O* which quickly completes the 
cure. 



ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE. 153 

ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE, ROSE. 
{Erysipelas.) 

The first symptoms of this affection, 
are, heat, tingling, or pricking pains 
with diffused swelling, tension and deep 
shining redness of the affected part; 
soon followed by pungent, burning, or 
shooting pains which are worse from 
motion, or pressure. On pressure the 
redness disappears for a moment, but 
immediately returns on removing the 
finger. 

The constitutional symptoms vary ae- 
CDrding to the severity, of the attack; 
they generally consist of shivering, suc- 
ceeded by flushes of heat, sleepiness, 
wandering pains, dry tongue, nausea, 
oppression at the stomach and headache. 
In a few days the redness changes into 
a yellowish hue, and when the face is 
attacked the features become much dis- 
figured by the swelling and delirium is 
not unf requently present. The disease 
assumes a very serious aspect when it 
affects the face and scalp, and accord- 
ingly requires close attention and 
accurate treatment. 



154 ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE. 

Treatment:— Prescription 'F' is our 
great fever remedy and always renders 
valuable service at the commencement, 
of acute disease when there is high fever, 
dry skin and full, rapid pulse. "We should 
make use of this remedy for a time at the 
beginning of this affection, and will often 
be surprised at the rapidity with which 
the fever and burning pain subside. 

Prescription f G' is, however, our chief 
reliance in the treatment of erysipelas 
when the redness expands in rays and an 
acute shooting pain, with heat and ting- 
ling, is experienced in the affected part. 
It is further indicated in erysipelas of the 
face with burning heat, excessive swell- 
ing, so that the eyes are almost closed, 
violent headache, thirst, dry skin, rest- 
lessness, disturbed sleep, delirium, and 
the redness of a very deep color. 

Prescription 'H' is the medicine to be 
prescribed when the hue of the skin is less 
intense, or of a bluish red, and the mor- 
bid spots frequently disappear from one 
place to reappear in another. This is also 
a valuable medicine in vesicular erysipe- 
las, where little vesicles appear upon the 
inflamed surface, or when the disease 



ITCH. 155 

attacks the ear both internally and ex- 
ternally. 

When the eruption is a very dark red, 
and when the vesicles are of a very dark 
color, prescription fc L' is the remedy to be 
relied upon. This remedy is all the 
stronger indicated when the burning pain 
is of the intensest kind with utter pros- 
tration of strength. 

ITCH, 

{Scabies.) 

This is a name given to an affection 
produced by a parasite burrowing itself 
into the skin in order to find shelter, sub- 
sistence and to deposit its eggs. With 
the exception of the face these little 
insects make their appearance upon 
every part of the body, but much more 
frequently and abundantly about the 
thumb, wrist, between the fingers and at 
the bends of the joints, and are ac- 
companied by incessant and almost 
insupportable itching which causes the 
inflammation that often produces vesicles 
and pustules. 

Treatment: — The shortest procedure 
to a cure is the destruction of these little 



156 BOILS. 

annoying animals by some direct appli- 
cation, such as; sulphur and mercurial 
salves, which can be procured at the 
nearest druggist. Their destruction can 
often be effected by the application of 
prescription '1ST'. These little animals, 
however, often cling to life with a great 
deal of tenacity. 

While making the application it will be 
well for the patient to take from prescrip- 
tion 'O' to prevent any suppression of the 
eruption and to insure a complete cure. 

BOIL. 

{Fwrwnculus.) 



This is a round, or rather cone-shaped, 
hard elevation, slowly inflaming and 
accompanied with acute pain and fever; 
subsequently suppurating in its centre 
and finally perforation of the skin and a 
discharge of bloody matter. The core, 
or centre, is not discharged until all of it 
has been loosened from its surroundings, 
but must be gotten rid of to insure a 
complete cure. Boils are of different 
sizes, large ones generally occurring 
singly, but small ones several at a time, 
or in quick succession. 



CARBUNCLE. 157 

Treatment: — When boils first begin to 
make their appearance, their further 
progress can often be checked, and sup- 
puration prevented by the timely use of 
prescription k H'. When, however, this 
can not be done and suppuration is 
inevitable, we should turn our attention 
to prescription *0\ This medicine will 
lessen the pain and hasten suppuration. 
We should continue its use for some days 
after the boil has entirely healed to pre- 
vent its successor. 

The knife should not be used unless 
suppuration is quite far advanced, or it 
may only be productive of mischief. 

CARBUNCLE. 
{Anthrax*) 



Carbuncles appear principally upon the 
nape of the neck, or along the spine, and 
attack chiefly aged persons. They com- 
mence with severe pains in the part 
affected, which are mostly of a burning 
character and continue to be so through 
the whole course. The painful spot shortly 
begins to discolor, generally assuming a 
purplish hue, and grows hard and swol- 
len. In the course of five or six days we 



158 CARBUNCLE. 

observe numerous little holes forming in 
the raised and discolored places, out of 
which project yellowish spots of mattery 
substance. But little pus is discharged 
from these small apertures; they, how- 
ever, gradually widen and coalesce until 
by degrees a considerable portion of the 
surface is entirely destroyed. Now we 
observe the decaying tissue underneath, 
the pus discharges more copiously, and 
with it large pieces of decaying tissue 
(sloughs) are thrown off. This stage of 
the trouble is always attended with con- 
siderable fever, and when complicated 
with brain symptoms, due to the absorp- 
tion of pus into the blood, should be looked 
upon with some degree of fear especially in 
the aged. In favorable cases there appear 
at the bottom of the wound new granula- 
tions, and by a slow healing process the 
whole lost substance is finally restored. 

Treatment:— Prescription 'L' is our 
best medicine in this affection, and with- 
out particularly consulting the symptoms 
we commence the remedy with the com- 
mencement of the disease, and continue 
its use until the anthrax opens and is dis- 
charging freely. We now change to 



FELON. 159 

prescription 'O', and continue this treat- 
ment until our patient is entirely well, as 
we have as yet had no other result. 

A few years since the knife was the 
remedy, and death generally the result, 
especially in old people. The knife, how- 
ever, is gradually and very justly going 
out of use, and constitutional treatment 
almost exclusively made use oil. 

FELON. RUN-AROUND. 
{Panaritinum.) 



By this term is understood an abscess 
more or less deeply seated, formed near 
the end of the finger, attended with se vero 
pain and considerable swelling. It is 
generally seated immediately around and 
beneath the nail, commencing either at 
the side of the finger, upon its dorsal sur- 
face, or at its extremity. It has a great 
disposition to reappear in individuals who 
have once suffered from its attack, which 
clearly demonstrates the advantage of 
treating it as a constitutional and not as 
mearly a local affection, 

Treatment: — We direct our patient to 
take from two to three pills from pre- 
scription 4 A' each night when retiring 



160 FELON. 

for three or four successive nights, and 
at the same time take from prescription 
'O' following the direction upon tho bot- 
tle, omitting the dose at night while 
taking the pills. It is good treatment to 
continue prescription 'O' for sometime 
after the finger is entirely well, in order 
to rid the system of the disposition. 

When the felon has gone to the stage 
of suppuration, a poultice made of corn 
meal with a few drops of laudanum over 
its surface makes a very grateful appli- 
cation and hastens suppuration. 



DISEASES PECULIAR TO 

FEMALES. 



CHLOROSIS. 

(Emansio Mensium.) 



This affection generally manifests itself 
in young girls about their fourteenth year 
of age, and is characterized by a pale 
blanched complexion with sometimes 
flushes of heat and redness. The patient 
complains of weariness, lassitude and 
debility, and becomes very much emacia- 
ted, the extremities frequently assume an 
oedematous appearance, and are mostly 
cold; headache with flatulent distention 
of the abdomen particularly after meals, 
and bowels irregularly confined and some- 
times easily irritated and relaxed; a 
depravity of appetite, a longing after 
innutritious substances, something sweet, 
sour or bitter, and a general languor both 
mental and physical. 



162 CHLOROSIS. 

A harsh cough, occasionally with peri- 
odical expectoration of dark coagulated 
blood, and hurried breathing declares 
itself if the affection has been allowed to 
proceed unchecked. 

Its proximate cause is in an obstruc- 
tion of the menstruation, or courses, 
while its predisposing cause is generally 
attributable to a deranged state of the 
organs of digestion, of respiration, and 
also of the ovaries; a disease very similar 
may be produced by great loss of blood. 

Treatment: — When this affection 
seems to have been excited by and is inti- 
mately connected with deranged diges- 
tion, and when it is accompanied with 
frequent attacks of headache ar^d flatu- 
lent distention of the abdomen, prescrip- 
tion 'IF will be found peculiarly effica- 
cious. This remedy should also be given 
when there is palpitation of the heart, 
coldness of the hands, feet, sudden flashes 
of heat with a disposition to diarrhea 
and leucorrhoea, or whites. 

Prescription 'C is often of the most 
striking benefit in chlorosis, and complete 
cures are effected by it alone, even in 
some of the worst cases. The leading 



MENSES. 163 

symptoms that call for its use are great 
emaciation, pale, sickly complexion, 
swelling, or puffing of the extremities 
with cold perspiration, difficult breathing 
and palpitation of the heart from the 
slightest exertion. 

Prescription 'B' will be found curative 
when there is dry cough, bleeding at the 
nose, coldness and shivering, and some- 
times alternating with dry and burning 
heat, constipation, colic and flatulency, 
bitter taste, tongue coated yellow, and 
sense of pressure in the stomach as if 
from a stone. 

This is an affection requiring sun-light, 
out door exercise, and a plentiful supply 
of nutritious easily digested food. 

SUPPRESSION OF THE MENSES. 

(Amenorrhoea.) 



Suppression of the menses, or courses, 
frequently takes place suddenly from 
some accidental cause, such as, exposure 
to cold, powerful mental emotions, etc. 

In other instances the suppression is 
symptomatic of some other disease, either 
organic, or functional, and can only be 



164 MENSES 

remedied by the cure of the primary 
affection. 

Treatment: — When the suppression 
takes place suddenly from some powerful 
mental emotion such a fright, unex- 
pected news, etc., prescription 4 F' should 
be administered immediately, and in 
nearly every instance a calm will soon 
follow, and a return of the flow. 

Prescription 'H' will be found to afford 
quick relief when the suppression is due 
to having taken cold from getting the 
feet wet, or other causes, and also from 
whatever cause when the following symp- 
toms are present; headache with pressure 
at the crown of the head, nausea with 
inclination to vomit and sometimes 
vomiting, palpipation of the heart, cold 
hands and feet, flushes of heat and a dis- 
position to diarrhea. 

In weak and debilitated individuals 
when the habit has become chronic, pre- 
scription 'O' is a most excellent medicine. 
This remedy will also be found efficacious 
when there is pain in the back of the 
head, extending to the nape of the neck, 
humming in the ears, pimples on the 
forehead and around the mouth; pale and 



MENSTUATION. 165 

sickly complexion, red spots on the 
cheeks; pressure, fullness and heaviness 
in the stomach, bowels irregular; exces- 
sive fatigue and great tendency to take 
cold. 

PAINFUL MENSTRUATION. 
(Dysmenorrhoea.) 

Painful menstruation is either due to a 
congestive state of the womb, or to a dis- 
placement, or flexion of the organ, or to 
a morbid sensibility of the nervous 
system in general and the generative 
organs in particular. 

In most cases there is an irregularity 
in the monthly period and the flow is 
scanty, but in others we find perfect 
regularity and the flow sufficient and 
sometimes profuse. The pains accom- 
panying it set in either before, or at the 
time when the menstrual discharge 
begins and generally last a day or two, 
but some times through the whole period. 
Many females suffer the greatest amount 
of pain at every monthly period, not 
only cramps, colic, cutting and griping 
pains, but actual bearing down pains as 
if in labor, and in some cases even con- 



166 MENSTRUATION. 

vulsions attend each period producing 
the greatest dread of menstruation. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'G' is the 
best known remedy in painful menstrua- 
tion attended with cramps, cutting and 
griping pains in the abdomen, and when 
the flow is scanty with a determination 
of blood to the head producing headache, 
delirium and sometimes convulsions. 
This is a most excellent remedy when 
there is a neuralgic tendency at the head 
and womb at each return of the mens- 
trual period. Prescription 'F 5 is also a 
valuable medicine in painful menstrua- 
tion attended with neuralgia. The 
alternate use of these two remedies will 
often work wonders in such cases, not 
only relieving suffering for the time, but 
making most perfect cures. 

In painful menstruation where the flow 
comes on by fits and starts with cramps 
and colic pains in the lower part of the 
abdomen, we find a great remedy in 
prescription 'H' particularly when there 
is chilliness, thirstlessness, nose-bleed 
and extreme paleness of the face. 



PROFUSE MENSES. 167 

PROFUSE MENSES. 
(Menorrhagia-) 

Profuse menstruation is generally 
found in females subject to leucorrhoQfr, 
or whites, and is dependent Upon a simi- 
lar relaxed condition of the system. It 
is, however, often found in connection 
with different structural charges and 
morbid growths of the womb, and is 
sometimes due to diseases of other organs, 
heart, lungs, etc. 

The menstrual period may keep regular 
time, or it may come too socn, or it may 
last too long, and in some cases, too 
early, too profuse and lasting too long. 

Treatment: — In profuse menstruation, 
occurring too early, or too often and of 
too long duration, and in cases where it 
commences, stops for a day, or so, and 
then returns, prescription 'D' is the 
remedy to prescribe, and when the pro- 
fuse menses is attended with cramps in 
the abdomen, nausea, vomiting, or faint- 
ing, especially in the morning, and pains 
in the limbs with restlessness, this remedy 
can be given with great confidence. 

Prescription 'B' is strongly indicated 



168 WOMB. 

when the menses are premature and too 
profuse of dark red blood, with tearing in 
the limbs and splitting headache from 
the least motion, even from moving the 
eyes. This medicine is still more strongly 
indicated if the tongue is coated yellow,, 
great thirst, bilious vomiting, bowels con- 
stipated, and stools of a very dark color, 
sometimes alternating with diarrhea. 

In chlorotic, or anaemic females, with 
profuse menses occurring too early and 
lasting too long, prescription 'C answers 
our purpose well, and especially in cases 
subject to leucorrhoea with cold extremi- 
ties, cold perspiration, palpitation of the 
heart and difficult breathing upon the 
slightest exertion. 

Prescription 'I' has often proved cura- 
tive where there is almost a continuous 
flow without any pain. 

HEMORRHAGE from the WOMB. 
(Metrorrhagia* ) 

It is understood by this term, a moie, 
or less profuse flow of blood from the 
womb at any other time than at the regu- 
lar menstrual period. This is, however, 
not a very good definition, for in irregu- 



WOMB. 169 

lar menstruation we find the menses 
occuring at any and at all times, and can- 
not well be termed hemorrhage, and on 
the other hand we frequently meet with 
hemorrhage at the regular menstrual 
period. The two are quite distinct yet 
they sometimes become very much 
mixed. 

Hemorrhage from the womb is recog- 
nized by the following symptoms ; the 
bleeding is either in gushes, or a continu- 
ous flow of bright red blood, ceasing for 
a time to be followed by dark clotted 
blood, The face turns pale, the extremi- 
ties grow cold ; there is anxiety, 
restlessness, labor-like pains, or colic; 
sometimes difficult breathing, vomiting 
and even convulsions. A considerable 
loss of blood brings on signs of anaemia, 
coldness and deadly paleness of the face; 
chills, cold perspiration, darkness before 
the eyes, ringing in the ears, weak pulse 
and fainting spells. 

Treatment: — Hemorrhage from the 
womb with intense bearing down pains, 
as if every thing would be pressed out, 
suggests prescription 'G', and if with the 
above we find headache, loss of con- 



170 WOMB. 

ciousness at times, darkness before the 
eyes, enlarged pupils, gawning, jerking 
of the arms,and the blood a bright red, or 
dark clotted, we can give it with the 
utmost confidence of affording quick 
relief. 

Prescription 'C is a valuable remedy 
in hemorrhage at the climacteric period, 
or change of life, especially when the 
patient has always been subject to too 
profuse menstruation, and in females 
with a weak debilitated constitution 
suffering much from leucorrhoea, or 
whites. 

Prescription 'M' has proved itself a 
valuable medicine in passive hemorrhage 
of the womb, as well as hemorrhage from 
any other organ. So also is prescription 
'L' an excellent remedy in hemorrhage of 
this character, and when there has been 
great loss of blood with complete pros- 
tration of strength, it has no equal. 

In chronic cases where other medicines 
do not prevent its return we have often 
been successful with our slow but reliable 
friend, prescription 'O', and when an 
eruption appears here and there over the 
body, we give it with a great deal of 
assurance. 



OVARIES. 171 

INFLAMMATION of the OVARIES. 
{Ovaritis.) 



Inflammation of the Ovaries is more 
particularly liable to occur a short time 
after childbirth, but the affection may 
arise at other times and particularly in 
highly excitable females, and from over 
indulging in high living, too free use of 
wine, etc, 

The disease is recognized by pain in the 
ovarian region, which is in the lower part 
of the abdomen on either side of the 
middle line. This pain is sometimes of a 
severe shooting, pulsating character, and 
mostly aggravated by pressure over the 
region. When the inflammation is 
considerable we frequently detect en- 
largement of the ovary, which is very 
sensative to touch; gastric disturbance, 
headache, constipation, diminished secre- 
tion of urine, fever and derangement of 
the entire nervous system are experi- 
enced in severe cases. It is, however, in 
the sub-actue, or chronic form generally 
that this affection is met with, coming on 
gradually and insiduously, materially 
implicating the nervous system. 



172 OVARIES. 

Treatment: — In severe and sudden 
attacks of ovaritis attended with a high 
degree of fever and shooting pains a few- 
doses of prescription 'F' will be necessary 
to begin the treatment, and especially so 
if the trouble is due to a suppression of 
the menses from fright, unexpected news. 
or from exposure to cold winds. 

Prescription 'L' is very quick in its 
action in ovaritis when there is a stitch- 
ing pain from the ovary into the groin 
and down the limb, which feels numb 
and lame; worse from motion, bending, 
or sitting bent; burning pain in the ovary 
extending to the back, high fever, thirst 
and restlessness. 

Prescription k H' is also a valuable 
remedy when the affection is due to a 
suppression of the menses from getting 
the feet wet, with nausea, chilliness, 
thirstlessness and frequent urination. 
When this affection is due to a blow, or a 
bruise from some external cause, the 
internal administration of prescription 
'M' with the external application of pre- 
scription 6 W will be found satisfactory 
treatment. 



WHITES. 173 

LEUCORRHOEA, OR WHITES. 



An acute attack of Leucorrhoea, or 
Whites, generally sets in with a chill, or 
chilly sensations followed by more, or 
less fever, pain in the small of the back, 
in the groins, and a feeling of fullness 
and heaviness in the lower part of the 
abdomen, which is painful to pressure. 
In the course of three, or four days, the 
patient observes a discharge from the 
genitals, which, at first, is transparent 
and sticky, staining the linen grayish, 
but soon becomes opaque, and more, or 
less purulent. Generally in eight or ten 
days the fever gradually subsides, and 
after that the discharge slowly dimin- 
ishes until it finally ceases. 

In chronic cases the commencement is 
not so easily ascertained, in fact, in many 
instances the discharge has existed a 
long time before the patient attaches 
much importance to it, she is unable to 
tell you how, or when it began. The dis- 
charge, however, is the same as that 
above described, staining the linen gray- 
ish, and in severe cases it frequently 
becomes acrid, excoriating the parts it 



174 WHITES. 

comes in contact with. The longer 
standing the case, the more it changes 
the mucus lining of this organ, conse- 
quently the greater effect upon the 
monthly period, the general health and 
the difficulty of getting rid of. 

Treatment: — In an acute attack of 
Leucorrhoea we resort to prescription 
4 ¥ 9 at as early stage of the disease as pos- 
sible, and as the nature of the affection is 
similar to that of a recent cold, its pro- 
gress is checked almost at once by this 
remedy. 

When the discharge is thin, acrid and 
excoriating, or milky, thick and white 
without pain, prescription IF is the medi- 
cine indicated, also when the discharge 
increases, or occurs just before, during, 
or immediately after the monthly period, 
and especially when the menstrual flow 
is scanty, with looseness of the bowels, 
chilliness, thirstlessness, peevishness and 
sadness. 

Prescription 'O' is called for when the 
characteristics of the disease are con- 
stantly, or frequently changing: the 
discharge profuse and then scanty, mild, 
or excoriating, thin, thick, white, yellow, 



PREGNANCY. 175 

or green. The following symptoms are 
also generally present: heat in the crown 
of the head and burning in soles of the 
feet; feeling of faintness with a strong 
craving for food, without having natural 
hunger, and a weak sinking feeling in the 
stomach. 

Prescription 'L' will be found curative 
when the discharge is thick, tenacious 
or sticky, also when there is a tendency 
to ulceration, to stomach derangement 
and frequent palpitation of the heart. 

Prescription 'C acts promptly when the 
discharge is of a milk-like appearance 
and flows only by spells, profusely; too 
early and too profuse menstruation, pale- 
ness of the face, weakness in the chest, 
general weakness and emaciation. 

PREGNANCY. 



Pregnancy may justly be looked upon 
as one of the most interesting periods of 
a woman's life. She now no longer acts 
for herself alone, but has become invested 
with a grave responsibility, and upon 
some of the most apparently trifling of her 
actions may depend the future health and 
happiness of both herself and her new 



176 PREGNANCY. 

creation. Evidence collected by careful 
observers of the operations of nature 
warrant the conclusion that the actions 
of the mother exercise a great influence 
over, not only the constitutional and 
physical, but also the mental organiza- 
tion of her offspring, hence the great im- 
portance of strict observance of nature's 
laws especially by mothers who prefer the 
welfare of their children to their own 
acquired habits, or indulgences. 

The principal causes of sickly offspring 
are, bad health, or constitutional taint of 
both, or either of the parents; great 
inequality in the temperament and ages 
of the parents; errors in dress, diet and 
general habits of life, and occasionally 
from powerful mental emotions . 

Medicines possess the power in a great 
measurs to obviate the first of these 
causes, not only by destroying the here- 
ditary taint in the parents, but also in the 
children when transmitted to them. In 
many families hereditary diseases are 
fostered and even increased in virulence 
by intermarriage between their different 
members, sometimes disappearing in one 
generation to reappear in the next, but 



PREGNANCY. 177 

when the habits or mode of life of com- 
munities become more adapted to the 
natural law we may safely calculate upon 
the gradual extinction of all hereditary 
disease. Too much care can not be exer- 
cised in matrimony for upon this step 
not only depend the prosperity and hap- 
piness of the participants but also that of 
posterity. As a rule no two persons should 
wed having a common defect, or disease, 
for their offspring, if they survive, will 
not be healthy. This, experience abun- 
dantly proves, and this is our opinion why 
the intermarriage of members of families 
is so productive of unhealthy children. 
Great differences of age and tempera- 
ment should be considered. The children 
of old men although by young wives are 
very often extremely delicate and not 
unf requently precede their father, old as 
he is, to the grave. 

The dress of the pregnant female should 
of course, be suited to the season and 
when passing from a warm to a cold tem- 
perature the clothing must be changed 
accordingly to prevent taking cold. A 
point, however, of equal importance is 
the adaptation of her clothing to her per- 



178 PREGNANCY. 

son so as to preclude all unnecessary 
pressure upon any part of the frame cal- 
culated to interfere with the functions of 
those important organs destined for the 
nourishment and birth of the new being. 
The practice of tight lacing at all times 
injurious, is particularly so during this 
period. We should bear in mind that 
pressure upon these organs during 
development takes place in direct contra- 
vention of the operations of nature. 
Tightly bound garters are also especially 
injurious to pregnant females for the 
pressure they exercise upon the blood 
vessels encourage the development of 
varicose veins, an affection easily brought 
on during gestation. 

The diet should be plain. She should 
avoid taking indigestable food, or nour- 
ishment of the proper kind in too great 
quantities. Any imprudence in this 
respect besides causing indigestion an 
general uneasiness has a bad effect upon 
the future offspring. Too much care can 
not be exercised over what is taken into 
the stomach during this period, for upon 
this, to a great measure, depend the health 
character and disposition of the new 



PREGNANCY. ] 79 

being. Nothing should be taken that is 
not of a simple nutritious nature, and in 
reasonable quantities. Everything pos- 
sessing a medicinal property should be 
avoided; wine, liquors, beer and other 
stimulating beverages should be laid 
aside; strong coffee and tea are also inju- 
rious. If, however, she has been long 
habituated to the use of wine, beer, coffee 
or tea they may be taken in extreme 
moderation, but it will be far better if 
stimulants of every kind are altogether 
avoided. 

The mind, also, as well as the body, 
should be kept in a state of serenity. An 
easy cheerfulness of temper is very essen- 
tial in promoting the well being of the 
unborn infant. Experience is constantly 
proving that the predominant feeling on 
the mind of the mother during pregnancy 
has its effect % upon the mental organiza- 
tion of the child. During the course of 
conversation with an elderly gentleman 
of sense and observation of some months 
since, he observed: "I have j five grown 
children, and no two of them are similar 
in any respect except in personal appear- 
ance, but," said he, "it is ifi easily enough 



180 PREGNANCY. 

accounted for when I look over our past 
life. Each child's disposition or charac- 
teris the exact counterpart of its mother's 
at the time of pregnancy, due to our par- 
ticular condition at the time, prosperity, 
adversity, or surroundings." 

This proves how essential it is for the 
expectant mothers to keep their minds 
well and usefully employed during this 
period, to avoid all improper meditation, 
dissipation and the reading of literature 
not calculated to improve the mind. 

Powerful mental emotions should be 
avoided as far as possible. The effects 
of any unpleasant or unsightly object 
upon the mind of the mother, and the 
transmission of that effect to the offspring 
evidenced in various mental and physi- 
cal peculiarities after birth, is a theory as 
old as tradition. Without discussing the 
various arguments both for and against 
it, we simply advise expectant mothers 
to keep as far as possible out of the way 
of such objects. 



PREGNANCY. 181 

Derangements During Pregnancy. 



While pregnancy runs its regular and 
uniform course, the expectant mother 
enjoys an almost complete exemption 
from epidemic and infectious diseases, 
and even chronic complaints are fre- 
quently suspended, or get entirely well; 
in fact, with the exceptions of some slight 
troubles, frequently attendant upon preg- 
nancy, a well constituted organism should 
enjoy as good health during this period 
as at any other time, and many women 
pass through it and give birth to vigorous 
children without even the most trifling 
inconvenience. 

Virtual diseases during pregnancy are 
of rare occurrence, but when they do 
occur they should be treated accordingly. 

Menstruation at this period is not a dis- 
ease but rather an exception to the general 
rule. With a little patience it generally 
subsides of itself in the course of a month 
or two. If, however, it does not and she 
seems to suffer from the continuance of 
the menstrual flux, a few doses of pre- 
scription 'IF preceding the time of its 
occurrence, is mostly sufficient to control 

6 



182 PREGNANCY. 

it. If this medicine should fail, try pre- 
scription 'D', one or the other has never 
failed us. 

Morning Sickness is probably the most 
distressing affection encountered during 
pregnancy. This annoying trouble is 
mostly experienced when first rising from 
a horizontal position in bed. It frequently 
disappears soon after the period of quick- 
ening, (the fourth month,) but sometimes 
continues during the whole period. This 
condition is frequently relieved by resort- 
ing to prescription 'D' for a few days. 
The symptoms calling for its employment 
are, nausea or vomiting every morning 
on arising, heart-burn, depraved appetite, 
constipation and irritable temper. Pre- 
scription 'H' promptly relieves morning 
sickness when the following symptoms 
are present, nausea after every meal, 
vomiting, heart-burn, and longing after 
particular articles, such as, acids, beer, 
wine, etc. ; disposition peevish and sensi- 
tive, though naturally mild. 

Constipation is frequently met with in 
pregnancy, and particularly with those 
females who are naturally of a costive 
habit. Active exercise in the open air, 



PREGNANCY. 183 

avoiding indigestible food, and regularity 
in habits, are generally sufficient to cor- 
rect this condition. If after these 
precautions the tendency should con- 
tinue, prescription 'D' will generally help 
to bring about a natural action. When 
the liver seems to be inactive and the 
stools very light, or very dark, dry and 
difficult to void, prescription 'W will help 
us out. Cathartics should be the last 
resort, but when they become indispensi- 
ble, prescription ' A' answers our purpose. 
Take as few as are required to move the 
bowels, say two or three pills, or four if 
required, and one sometimes will be found 
sufficient. 

Diarrhea is rarely met with in preg- 
nancy, but when it does occur, can be 
successfully treated with a few doses of 
prescription 'O', or 'H\ We give 'O' first 
trial and rarely ever have to call 'H' to 
help us out. 

Fainting fits in extremely nervous 
females sometimes do occur during preg- 
nancy. The attack generally passes over 
easily and without any deleterious conse- 
quences. Should the sufferer remain 
long insensible, the expedient means of 



184 PREGNANCY. 

revival is, sprinkling cold water in the 
face. If the attack arises from tight 
lacing, warm room, or any other obvious 
cause, its removal will be found sufficient. 
Exercise in the open air and attention to 
rules of regimen, are the best safe-guards 
against this affection. Prescription 'D' 
will be found a great help in such cases 
when caused by a general irritability of 
the nervous system, and consequently 
stomach derangement. Prescription 'G' 
is an excellent medicine when the trouble 
is due to a disturbed circulation, determi- 
nation of blood to the head, flushed face, 
etc. When purely hysterical give pre- 
scription 'H\ 

Toothache is a frequent affection with 
pregnant women, and we can say nothing 
more direct to the point than is already 
said under ''Odontalgia". 

Miscarriage may occur at any time 
between the first and seventh months, 
but in the majority of cases takes place 
about the third, or beginning of the 
fourth. Women who have once suffered 
from this mishap are extremely liable to 
its recurrence, and this liability is still 
further increased if the event has taken 



PREGNANCY. 185 

place a second, or third time. The pre- 
monitory and accompanying symptoms 
of miscarriage vary much in their nature; 
sometimes the discharge is exceedingly 
profuse, at others, scanty; the pains in 
many instances, extremely severe and 
protracted, in others very slight and of 
short duration. 

Treatment : — Prescription 'G' is 
perhaps more successful in preventing 
miscarriage, when threatened, than any 
other medicine. The following are its 
leading indications; pain in the loins and 
abdomen, with severe bearing down as if 
every thing would be forced out; pain in 
the back as if dislocated. It is also valua- 
ble where there is profuse hemorrhage of 
bright red, and sometimes dark and 
clotted blood. 

Prescription 'C is a remedy of great 
importance in the treatment of miscar- 
riage when it seems to be brought' on by 
a varicose, or enlargment of the veins. 
It is also of value as a preventive in ple- 
thoric females with a tender, or irriatable 
skin, and other strumous appearances. 

Prescription 'L' is of value in restoring 
the exhausted energies after the hemor- 



186 CHILD BIRTH. 

rhage, and materially assists in checking 
the discharge if there be spasmodic pain 
in the womb, or bearing down sensation, 
with considerable loss of blood at inter- 
nals. 

Prescription 'M' will promptly check 
passive hemorrhage, hemorrhage with 
but little, or no pain that would eventual- 
ly end in miscarriage. 

When miscarriage is threatened the 
patient must assume the recumbent posi- 
tion in bed, sleeping with few bed clothes. 
Her apartment must be kept cool and 
every means used to insure perfect tran- 
quility of mind. 

CHILD BIRTH. 
{Parturition.) 



Child birth takes place at the end of 
the ninth month of pregnancy, and does 
not last longer than twenty -four hours, 
rarely above twelve, and frequently not 
longer than six. We have endeavored to 
describe and treat the most common 
affections of females both before and dur- 
ing pregnancy till the time of parturition. 
This is purely a physiological act and 
one seldom requiring interference, or 



CHILD BIRTH. 187 

assistance, but that cases do occur where 
experienced manual assistance is deman- 
ded, no one will attempt to deny, and as 
the attending physician is, or should be 
present, we resign the whole affair into 
his hands. 



DISEASES OF THE 

SYSTEM IN GENERAL 



RHEUMATISM. 
(Rheumatismus.) 

Acute rheumatism is preceded by rest- 
lessness, coldness of the extremities, 
chilliness, fever, thirst and constipation; 
soon followed by pains in the joints, or 
parts affected, frequently shifting their 
situation, leaving redness, swelling and 
tenderness of the parts; excessive pers- 
piration and weakness are also frequently 
present. 

Chronic rheumatism has similar symp- 
toms, except much less in severity; the 
swelling of the parts, except in very 
severe cases, is less perceptible, and fre- 
quently a general feeling of stiffness, or 
numbness is present with little, or no 
fever. The above symptoms are such a& 
are met with in the average case of acute 
and chronic rheumatism. Other symp- 
toms incidental to this affection will be 



RHEUMATISM. 189 

noticed in the directions for certain medi- 
cines. The principal exciting causes are, 
sudden check of perspiration from taking 
cold, exposure to cold, or from occupying 
damp apartments. People residing long 
in tropical climates are very liable to 
suffer from rheumatism in the chronic 
form. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'F is a 
valuable medicine to begin the treatment 
of acute rheumatism when there is high 
fever, dry skin, thirst and redness of the 
cheeks; violent shooting, tearing pains, 
especially when accompanied with a 
tingling sensation and worse at night; 
redness, or shining swelling of the parts 
affected and aggravation of pains from 
being touched. 

When the pains are of a shooting, or 
burning description, mostly in the joints 
and very much worse at night, prescrip- 
tion 'G' is the remedy to be prescribed. 
This medicine is particularly curative 
when the parts affected are very much 
swollen, rigid, red and shining, and 
where there is much fever with a deter- 
mination of blood to the head, red face 
and throbbing pulsations in the vessels, 



190 RHEUMATISM. 

and also when the skin is hot, great 
thirst, rapid pulse and sleeplessness. 

Prescription 'B' is probably our best 
remedy in rheumatism, or at least, is 
oftener called for. 

The following are its most prominent 
indications : swelling and stiffness of the 
joints affected; severe shooting pains; 
increased by the slightest movement, or 
by the least cold; fever, headache, 
stomach derangement and constipation 
with an irritable temper, the pains seem 
situated more in the muscles, and par- 
ticularly about the joints than in the 
bones. 

Prescription 'O' is also a valuable rheu- 
matic medicine, and is indicated by draw- 
ing, pricking, tearing pains in the 
extremities' and joints, with slight 
swelling, aggravation from cold and 
amelioration from warmth; increase of 
pain when at rest, and mitigation from 
movement; rheumatic fever with alter- 
nate heats and chills, with pains in the 
head and neck; shivering chills which 
are impossible to relieve by warmth, and 
which terminate in heat after an hour or 
two; towards morning sweat of an acid 



GOUT. 191 

odor, generally complete absence of appe- 
tite, or desire for acid food only with 
great thirst and constipation. 

The diet should be made principally of 
fruits and vegetables, with but little, or 
no meat. The acid of fruit is decidedly 
curative in this affection, lemonade 
makes a palatable and healthful bever- 
age. 

GOUT. 

{Arthritis.) 

Gout differs entirely from rheumatism 
in the form of its attacks; also, in its 
never attacking children, but only grown 
people generally after thirty years of age, 
and men oftener than women. 

Such persons as are accustomed to a 
rich table, and habitually use beer, wine 
or liquor, and who take very little bodily 
exercise are generally subject to this 
disease. It is, therefore, a very rare 
occurrence to find a poor man a sufferer 
from this affection. 

The attack generally com'es on sud- 
denly, and at night while asleep. The 
patient is aroused from his slumbers 
mostly after mid-night by a burning, 



192 GOUT. 

screwing pain in one of his big toes, which 
grows worse from hour to hour. If the 
toe were screwed in a vice it could not 
hurt worse. The toe soon begins to swell 
and redden, there is great thirst, high 
fever, dry skin, clouded urine and great 
mental irritability. Towards morning 
a remission of suffering takes place, 
generally to be renewed the next night. 

In this way it continues for about a 
week, when finally the pain, redness and 
swelling gradually disappear and at last 
the skin of the affected toe peels off. 

This is generally the course of the first 
attack. Repeated similar attacks may 
occur from time to time in the joints of 
the feet and hands, but if the sufferer 
does not mend his ways, and lead a more 
correct life he lays himself liable to 
attacks of gout in the stomach, brain, or 
heart, from which, he will find it rather 
difficult to extricate himself. 

Treatment: —At the commencement of 
an attack of gout when there is high 
fever, dry skin, great thirst, swelling and 
redness of the toe we resort to prescrip- 
tion 'F', and those cases it fails to relieve 
entirely it very materially mitigates the 
suffering. 



LUMBAGO. 193 

Prescription 'D' is, however, the medi- 
cine, the most reliance should be placed 
in where the too free indulgence in beer, 
wine, or liquor has been the inducing 
cause. It is, moreover strongly indicated 
in dyspeptic individuals who also suffer 
from constipation, or piles. The pains 
are worse towards morning with cramps 
and throbbing in the muscles of the leg 
and foot. 

When the pains are of a shifting nature 
producing a paralytic, or torpid sensation 
in the part affected, prescription 'H' will 
be found excedingly efficacious. This is 
also a valuable remedy in this affection 
in dyspeptic patients. 

LUMBAGO. 



This affection consists of a violent pain 
of a rheumatic character in the small of 
the back, either periodical, or permanent, 
and frequently accompanied with a con- 
siderable degree of fever. 

Treatmekt: — Prescription 'F' may be 
given for a short time with great benefit 
at the commencement of the attack if 
much fever is present with dry skin and 
excessive tearing pains. 



194 SCIATICA. 

When the pains in the back are of a 
severe aching, or lancinating description, 
constraining the patient to walk in a 
stooping posture, prescription 'B' should 
be given, and when the suffering is 
aggravated from motion, or from cold, 
with a feeling, or sensation of general 
chilliness make this medicine all the more 
strongly indicated. 

When the pains resemble those pro- 
duced by a bruise, or by excessive fatigue, 
also when much increased by motion, 
especially turning in bed, prescription 'D' 
will be found to afford prompt relief. It 
is also curative when this affection is 
attended with great weakness, constipa- 
tion and irritability of temper. 

Prescription 'H' will be found a 
valuable medicine when the pains are 
changeable, shifting to different parts of 
the back, and when there is a sense of 
torpor, or paralysis in the parts affected. 

SCIATICA, 

We understand by this term a pain in 
the sciatic nerve, which extends from the 
hip to knee and foot on the outer side of 
the leg. It often interferes with the 



SCIATICA. 195 

motion of the foot causing stiffness and 
contraction, and the pain is frequently of 
the most intense kind. 

Treatment: — In this as in the preced- 
ing affection we commence the treatment 
with prescription 'F' when there is con- 
siderable fever, dry skin, thirst, and the 
pains of a shooting, tearing nature. 

When burning pains are complained of, 
or sometimes a sensation of coldness in 
the parts affected, we frequently find 
quick relief from the administration of 
prescription 'L\ It is also further indi- 
cated when there is acute drawing pains 
in the hips, with great restlessness, oblig- 
ing the patient to move the limbs 
frequently, in order to obtain relief; 
occasional remissions, or the suffering of 
a periodical nature; great weakness and 
the suffering mitigated by the application 
of something warm. 

Prescription 'IF will be found to act 
splendidly when the pains are of a shift- 
ing character, first in one and then in 
another part of the leg; the pains worse 
in the evening and at night. 



196 EYES. 

INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES, 
{Ophthalmia) 

This affection is recognized by great 
pain, heat and redness of the eyes, with 
a marked intolerance to light. When the 
inflammation is very great it is accom- 
panied by headache, high fever and an 
increased sensibility to light, with a scar- 
let, or pink redness of the eyes. Either 
one, or both eyes may be affected. 

This trouble may arise from numerous 
causes, the most frequent are, exposure, 
to strong light, or extreme heat after 
coming from a very cold atmosphere; 
from taking cold, external injury, etc. 

Treatment: — In inflammation of the 
eyes prescription 'G' should be given 
when the following symptoms are pres- 
ent: great redness and intolerance of, 
and pain increased by light; great sensi- 
bility of the eyes and eyelids, aching 
pains penetrating deeply into the orbits 
and head, with aggravation on moving 
the eyes, redness of the corners of the 
lids, dimness of vision towards evening, 
objects frequently appearing reversed, or 
double, severe cold in the head at the 



EYES. 197 

same time, with acrid discharge causing 
excoriation at the end of the nose and on 
the lip. 

Prescription 'H' is indicated when there 
is burning and smarting irritation of the 
eyes, a sensation as if sand were under 
the lids; scarlet redness of the eyes and 
eyelids with copious secretion of mucus, 
pricking, shooting, piercing pains in the 
eyes, with bright redness and profuse 
flow of tears on attempting to use them. 
This remedy is also useful on the other 
hand when there is excessive dryness of 
the eyelids with sticking together in the 
morning. 

Prescription b '0' has been found an 
important remedy in inflammation of the 
eyes of all kinds, whether catarrhal, rheu- 
matic, or scrofulous of an obstinate and 
inveterate character. It is particularly 
indicated by the following symptoms: 
pressure, smarting and burning, or itch- 
ing of the eyes, or eyelids; dimness of 
sight with cloudy appearance of things; 
specks, vesicles, or pustules on the ball 
of the eye. It is also one of the best 
medicines for chronic sore lids. 

As an application to inflamed eyes 



198 EARS. 

there is nothing better than a very weak 
solution of prescription 'M ? , say, ten 
drops in a half glass of water, applied 
four, or five times a day, or oftener in 
severe cases. 
Inflammation of the Ears. Earache. 
{Otitis* Otalgia.) 



Inflammation of the ears is made 
known by a violent, almost unbearable 
pain in the ears with extreme sensibility 
to noise, more, or less fever, and fre- 
quently inflammation of the external 
opening. In severe case the inflam- 
mation may extend to the brain, 
producing delirium. Earache may be 
the result of inflammation, or if neglected 
may pass on to it; in many cases it 
arises by sympathy from toothache, and 
itoften declares itself as a purely 
neuralgic affection. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'W is pro- 
bably our best remedy in affections of the 
eye and ear, or at least, it seems oftener 
indicated. It is particularly efficacious 
when the external ear is much affected 
and appears inflamed and swollen, when 
there is a good deal of heat, shooting and 



NOSE. 199 

throbing pain, and when there is a mois- 
ture in the ear, or a copious discharge. 

Prescription 'G' cures promptly when 
there is determination of blood to the 
head, tearing, or shooting pains extend- 
ing to the throat, fever and extreme 
sensibility to noise, and also when the 
brain partakes of the irritation and 
delirium is present. 

Prescription 'O' is called for in long- 
standing affections of the ears, and par- 
ticularly when there is purulent 
discharge. 

BLEEDING OF THE NOSE. 

{Epistaxis.) 

Bleeding of the nose is of frequent 
occurrence with some, and but little is 
thought of it; with others, it as an affec* 
tion unknown. It often appears at the 
termination of many diseases, such as, 
fevers, etc., and is in such instances 
salutary. It also occurs sometimes dur- 
ing the course of some severe diseases 
and its presence frequently means mis- 
chief. It also frequently relieves, or 
cures headache, vertigo, etc., and in such 
cases does no harm unless it be excessive, 



200 NOSE. 

last too long, recur too frequently, or 
takes place under a debilitated state of 
the system. An affection having so many 
different meanings can not be looked 
after too closely. The attack is generally 
preceded by a degree of quickness of the 
pulse, confusion, or dimness of sight,itch- 
ing in the nostrils, etc. 

Treatment: — Exposing the face to a 
current of cold air, sprinkling, or throw- 
ing cold water in the face, applying 
something cold to the nape of the neck, 
or placing the feet in warm water is 
generally sufficient to check an ordinary 
attack of nose-bleed, or, at least, very 
materially assist in its cure. 

In very plethoric subjects with deter- 
mination of blood to the head, with red 
face and a profuse discharge of bright 
red blood, prescription 'G' will generally 
be found sufficient to produce a cure. 

In females who have too scanty men- 
struation followed by headache and 
nose-bleed prescription 'H ? will relieve 
promptly. 

Prescription k M' is, however, the great- 
est of remedies for bleeding from any 
orifice of the body. 



DROPSY. 201 

DROPSY, 

. {Hydrops.) 

Dropsy is a name given to an unusual 
and abnormal collection of serious, or 
watery fluid in some parts of the body. It 
derives names according to the locality 
where it collects. When it collects in the 
cavity of the cranium it is termed 
Hydrocephalus; when in the chest Hydro- 
thorax; when in the abdomen Acites; and 
when in the cellular tissue in the extremi- 
ties Anasarca, etc., etc. 

The symptoms common to this disease 
are, pale and sickly countenance, dry yel- 
lowish skin, red and dry, furred and 
moist, or on the contrary, an unusual 
clear and florid tongue; loss of appetite 
and poor digestion, constipation fre- 
quently alternating with diarrhea, urine 
scanty, at times, almost none, and very 
high colored; pulse variable, sometimes 
quick, at others slow and frequently irre- 
gular and intermitting, debility, languor, 
and an increase of fever generally 
towards night. In some cases there is 
cough, difficult breathing, or feeling of 
suffocation, particularly in the recum- 
bent position. 



202 DROPSY. 

Dropsy is generally, if not always, 
symptomatic of some other disease; 
diseases of the brain, lungs/ heart, kid- 
neys, etc. , but the symptoms are generally 
sufficient to lead to its cause and cure . 

Treatment: — Prescription 'L' is a very 
great medicine in dropsy when there is 
much debility and the attack has come on 
suddenly, as after a chill, from drinking 
copiously of cold water while in a heated 
state, also when it occurs in connection 
with diseases of the heart, stomach, or 
kidneys. The special symptoms for this 
remedy are, tightness of breathing, or 
attacks of oppression which threaten 
suffocation; dry, harsh and thickened 
skin which is extremely pale, or of a 
greenish hue, particularly the face; exces- 
sive thirst, feeble or irregular pulse and 
coldness of the extremities. 

Prescription % B' will be found efficacious 
in dropsical affections due to diseases of 
the liver and intestines, and when arising 
from heart troubles prescription T will 
be found equally as beneficial. 

Prescription 'K' is a most excellent 
medicine in dropsical affections from 
diseases of the kidneys, and especially 



SCURVY. 203 

when the stomach is much out of repair. 
In dropsical affections due to diseases 
of the kidneys, when the flow of urine is 
very scanty and high colored ''Apocynum 
Cannabinum" has quite a reputation 
among physicians. This remedy is not 
found in the case but can be procured at 
any pharmacy. 

SC U RVY, 
{Scorbutus.) 



This affection is characterized by 
excessive debility, languor and bloated 
countenance; oedematous swelling of the 
lower extremities in severe cases, suscep- 
tability to hemorrhage, livid spots on the 
skin with an ulcerated tendency and very 
offensive urine and stools. The gums are 
spongy, recede from the teeth, easily 
provoked to bleed a viscid, bloody dis- 
charge. The gums probably show 
symptoms of the disease sooner than any 
other part of the body. 

This disease chiefly affects those who, 
from circumstances, are deprived of fresh 
provisions, and a sufficient supply of 
health)^ food, and are exposed to cold and 
damp together with fatigue. Want of 



204 SCROFULA. 

exercise, pure air and cleanliness, with 
intemperance, further tend to predispose 
to this affection. 

Treatment: — Prescription 'D' is a 
valuable medicine in this disease. We 
begin and continue its use so long as any 
improvement is noticable, but after a 
week, or so of its administration, if there 
be no improvement, we turn our attention 
to prescription '0', probably the best 
known medicine in this affection. We 
now give this remedy a trial for two, or 
three weeks and then again return to the 
first named prescription. We may from 
this on give these remedies in alternate 
weeks until the cure is affected. This is 
a disease very slow to appear and conse- 
quently slow to disappear. 

In the treatment, as well as the preven- 
tion of this malady, we must remove the 
probable causes of its occurrence when 
that can be done, and supply the patient 
with wholesome diet, fresh vegetables, 
and fruits of an acid nature. 

SCROFU LA, 



We understand by this term a nutritive 
disturbance of the body generally, mani- 



SCROFULA. 205 

f esting itself by an enlarged and hardened 
condition of the glands of the neck, 
groins, and under the arms, sometimes 
suppurating and discharging instead of 
pus, a white curdled matter; also by 
course features, thick swollen nose and 
upper lip, large belly, flabby muscles,, 
rough skin with more, or less eruption, or 
the skin is transparently white, reddens- 
easily, and through which the vessels can 
be seen, red lips and cheeks, bluish color 
of the whites of the eyes which gives to 
them the expression of languor, This 
affection is also manifested in the mucous 
membranes, the joints, bones, eyes, ears, 
nose, and in short, in every part of the 
body. 

Scrofula is inherited as well as 
acquired. Inherited from scrofulous 
parents; parents suffering from consump- 
tion, cancer, syphilis, etc. It is acquired 
generally from poor, or unhealthy diet, 
or by want of exercise and fresh air, or 
more frequently by the joint action of a 
number of unhealthy influences. Its 
course is always chronic, sometimes 
growing better and then worse again. 

Treatment: — When scrofula manifests- 



206 SCROFULA. 

itself by large glands, rough skin, thick 
swollen nose and upper lip, large belly 
and flabby muscles, and also by affec- 
tions of the eyes, nose, ears, joints, bones 
and mucous membranes, we give prescrip- 
tion '0\ And on the other hand when 
the skin is a transparently white, reddens 
easily, red lips and cheeks, bluish color of 
the whites of the eyes, muscles thin, soft 
and flabby, we resort to prescription 'C\ 
We also prescribe these two remedies in 
alternate weeks, with strong and marked 
effects in Scrofula. 

In the treatment of Scrofula a great 
deal can be accomplished by strict atten- 
tion to cleanliness, fresh air, exercise and 
a liberal supply of good nutritious food. 
In young subjects the above precautions 
alone are often sufficient of themselves 
to eradicate completely the entire trouble. 



CASUALTIES. 



CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN. 



We understand by this term a violent 
shock, or shaking of the brain due to 
falling upon some other part of the body, 
as the breech, or even the feet, and not 
to direct violence as a blow, or fall on the 
head. The symptoms vary according to 
the degree of injury sustained. When 
the concussion is severe there is imme- 
diate loss of sense and motion and death 
is frequently the result; when slight, 
there is temporary confusion, headache, 
followed by quick pulse, vertigo and sick 
stomach; and when the injury done is 
quite severe, though not sufficient to pro- 
duce death, the patient is rendered insen- 
sible and unable to move, the pulse is 
weak, slow and generally intermitting, 
the breathing laborious and the extremi- 
ties cold . As improvement sets in the 
pulse and respiration grow better, and 
the extremities begin to warm up, the 



208 BRAIN. 

sensibility to touch returns and generally 
at this stage vomiting begins and the 
contents of the stomach is rejected. 
Though the patient now answers ques- 
tions, a good-deal of stupor is present, 
and just here we have to fear the begin- 
ning of an active stage of inflammation of 
the brain, 

Treatment: — In all cases of injury 
resulting from external violence, pre- 
scription 'M' is an invaluable remedy, 
and its timely administration in cases of 
concussion of the brain, will, in most 
instances, if the injury sustained be not 
too severe, be sufficient to remove all evil 
consequence of such misfortunes. 

When there is a general disturbance of 
the system from such injuries, made 
known by high fever, dry skin and great 
thirst, we alternate prescription 'F' with 
'M' for a time. And when there is a ten- 
dency to inflammation of the brain, 
determination of blood to the head, red 
face, stupor, delirium, convulsions, etc., 
we alternate prescription 'G* with 'M' 
with good results. 

When all danger has passed and our 
patient up, moving around, he will often 



SPRAINS. 209 

complain of pains in his limbs, stiffness 
in the joints, and dull headache, pre- 
scription 'B' will promptly relieve these 
symptoms. 

When there is an external injury pre- 
scription 'N' makes a good application. 

SPRAINS AND STRAINS. 



These troublesome casualties, due to 
some sudden twist or unnatural move- 
ment, or from some sudden or powerful 
exertion are successfully treated by the 
application of prescription 'W, and in 
severe and obstinate cases by the inter- 
nal administration of prescription 'M' at 
the same time. # 

In obstinate cases of long standing of 
these affections, prescription 'B' will be 
found a great benefit. 

Perfect quiet should be onjoined in these 
two affections until entire recovery takes 
place. Often when the patient feels him- 
self quite well, some slight exertion is 
sufficient to produce a relaps, from which 
it is more dfficult to recover than from 
the first attack. 



310 WOUNDS. 

WOUNDS. 



"Wounds receive names according to 
the nature of the instrument producing 
them. 

An Incised wound is one produced by 
some sharp cutting instrument, as a 
sword, knife, etc., and although more 
liable to bleed free, is, generally speak- 
ing, the least dangerous and the most 
easily healed. 

Lacerated wound is one instead of the 
flesh being cut, as with a knife, is torn 
asunder with violence, the edges are 
uneaven and irregular. It is commonly 
attended with little or no bleeding and 
rarely heals without inflammation and 
suppuration. 

Punctured wound is one caused by a 
pointed instrument. It partakes more of 
a lacerated than an incised wound, and 
is dangerous from the depth frequently 
penetrated. 

Contused wound is simply a bruise, the 
result of direct violence to some part of 
the body, such as, a blow with a blunt 
instrument and the injury sustained is 
according to the force of the blow, to the 




WOUNDS. .211 

nature of the instrument, or to the local- 
ity received. We have also the gun shot 
wound, the poisoned wound, etc. 

Treatment : — In the treatment of 
wounds the first thing to be done is to 
arrest bleeding. This is done in ordinary- 
cases by cold applications, such as cold 
water, or ice and astringents. If the 
hemorrhage be considerable, and these 
applications not sufficient to arrest it, or 
if it be from rupture of an artery, especial- 
ly of the extremities, a band tightly 
bound around the limb above the bleed- 
ing with a compress under the band on 
the side just above the wound will be suf- 
ficient to control the hemorrhage until 
the nearest physician is summoned, as in 
all probability an artery is to ligate or 
tie which requires skilled hands for its 
proper performance. 

When the bleeding is stopped and all 
foreign matter removed, such as, sand, 
splinters, rags, fragments of glass, shot, 
etc., then proceed to dress the wound. 
This is done first by placing the body or 
limbs in a position to relax the muscles, 
to prevent the wound from gaping; 
finally place the lips of the wound in 



212 WOUNDS. 

accurate contact and keep them so by 
bandage if the wound be very slight; by 
plasters and bandages if it be more severe; 
and by suturs, plasters and bandages if 
they all be required to hold the parts 
firmly together. 

Bandages are indispensible in deep or 
small superficial incised wounds, but care 
must be taken not to apply them too 
tightly, especially where there is much 
inflammation. 

Sutures are generally necessary in 
wounds of some magnitude, and often in 
small superficial wounds of the face, 
abdomen, and sometimes the hands, and 
especially in old people, but should be 
applied with skilled hands. 

Strips of adhesive plaster cut narrow 
in the centre, or portion to cross the 
wound, and sufficiently long to retain 
their hold firmly; form in the majority of 
wounds the most frequently useful means 
of bringing the parts in close approxima- 
tion. Wounds frequently suppurate, con- 
sequently it is necessary to leave inter- 
vening space between the strips of plaster 
to admit of the exit of matter, or we may 
do mischief. 



BURNS. 213 

If there be considerable pain, heat and 
swelling, lint dipped in cold water fre- 
quently remoistened, makes a grateful 
application. If, however, healing goes 
on naturally, and there is not much pain, 
swelling, or inflammation, we prefer no 
application whatever, simply cleansing 
the wound with tepid water. If healing 
seems to be slow, with a tendency to 
inflame and suppurate, prescription 'O' 
will work a very rapid change. This 
medicine will also be found useful when 
the suppuration has become copious. 

In severe wounds the patient should be 
kept cool, free from anxiety, or exertion, 
and as quiet as possibly. He should live 
abstemiously, avoiding everything of a 
heating nature, and his drink should be 
cold water. 

BURNS AND SCALDS. 



The degree of danger f r- >m the effects 
of burns and scalds, depends upon several 
conditions. A scald or burn of great 
extent frequently proves fatal immedi- 
ately; or in a very short time, the patient 
often not rallying from the collapse. Burns 
of considerable depth are also alarming. 



214 BURNS. 

Age temperament and habits of living 
determine to a considerable extent the 
danger to be apprehended. The young 
with correct habits of living would quick- 
ly recover from a burn or scald that would 
prove fatal with the aged and intemper- 
ate. 

Treatment: — In slight burns or scalds 
tbe injured parts should be held for two 
or three minutes near the fire; a tempor- 
ary increase of pain will be amply repaid 
by the prevention of future suffering. 

The application of prescription 'M' is of 
quick service in superficial burns and 
scalds, frequently preventing blistering 
in quite severe cases. The plan of appli- 
cation: make a weak solution, say, fifteen 
or twenty drops in a half glass of water; 
dip a linen cloth in this and completely 
cover the burn or scald with the same. 
Keep the cloth moistened with the solu- 
tion without moving it from the wound. 
The sooner the application is made after 
the accident the more likely to prevent 
blistering. 

When, however, the injury is more 
severe, the affected part may be dressed 
with heated alcohol, oil of turpentine or 



OVERHEAT. 215 

linseed oil, taking care to keep the parts 
continually moist and well protected from 
the air. Raw cotton applied over the 
part is frequently found efficatious, 
especially when the injury presents a 
large surface. It should be applied two 
or three thicknesses, and when suppura 
tion sets in remove the upper layer only 
and substitute fresh. 

In severe burns or scalds, prescription 
'0' should be given from the beginning, 
and continued until the cure is affected. 

OVERHEAT./ 



When from extreme heat, or from over 
exertion in hot weather, the head should 
become hot and the face flushed, care 
must be taken to drink no cold water 
until sufficient time has elapsed for the 
body to cool down. The early employ- 
ment of prescription 'F' in such cases 
will quickly afford relief and prevent 
danger by the controlling influence it 
exerts over circulation. 

Violent throbing headache with con- 
gestion, fever, vomiting, sleeplessness, 
great anguish or despair and a sense of 
weight in the head from overheating calls 



216 APPARENT DEATH. 

for the administration of prescription 'G\ 
This medicine is also particularly % effica- 
cious when there is a sudden loss of 
consciousness from overheat, with hot 
head, cold extremities, cold clammy skin 
and laborious breathing. 

The extremities should be made warm 
by placing the feet in hot water, and by 
being well rubbed and wrapped when 
taken out. 

The head must be made cool by cool 
applications, though the direct applica- 
tion of ice is not so highly extoled as of 
some time since. 

APPARENT DEATH. 

{Asphyxia.) 

When an individual has to all appear- 
ances suddenly expired, and particularly 
from external causes, animation may 
only be suspended, care therefore, when 
there is the least uncertainty, should be 
taken to do nothing that may cause 
death, and interment should be avoided 
until certain signs of putrefaction set in. 

There are many cases of course, where 
sudden death is no mere suspension of 
animation, but there are others where 
apparent death is far from uncommon. 



Apparent death. 2i7 

Apparent death is sometimes met with 
from hunger, from a fall, from suffoca- 
tion, from lightning, from drowning, 
from being frozen, etc., etc. 

In a work so small as this it is impos- 
sible to give full and complete directions 
in every case of sudden and apparent 
death, and, if so, for the want of experi- 
ence the average reader would in many 
instances be unable to carry them out 
successfully, so in every instance of appa- 
rent death we advise the instantaneous 
summoning of the nearest physician as 
his knowledge and experience will, or 
should enable him to do the very best 
that can be done. In the meantime we 
would advise that the body be properly 
cared for; freely exposing the face, neck 
and chest to the air, and to turn the body 
upon its face for a time with one arm 
under the forehead in order to clear the 
mouth and throat. This being done our 
next move is to excite respiration, which 
is frequently accomplished by turning 
the body upon one side and applying 
snuff, pepper, or some other irritant to 
the nostrils and dashing cold water on 
the face. When these means fail we 

7 



218 POtSONS. 

should hurriedly proceed to imitate respi- 
ration by turning the body first upon the 
face and then upon the side alternately; 
continuing this rotating motion perse- 
veringly from sixteen to seventeen times 
per minute, and at the same time to rub 
the limbs upwards with firm pressure to 
induce circulation and warmth. If, in 
the meantime, the body be slapped 
briskly with the hand, and cold water 
dashed upon the surface, previously 
rubbed dry and warm, will very mate- 
rially assist in restoring respiration. The 
above directions should be followed ener- 
getically until the patient is restored to 
life, or the attending physician suggests 
something differently. 

POISONS and their ANTIDOTES. 



When poisonous substances have been 
taken into the stomach the first move is 
to cause their ejection by vomiting, or 
neutralization by proper antidotes. Our 
first step, however, should always be to 
get rid of as much of the poison as possi- 
ble by vomiting — riddance is always pref- 
erable to neutralization — but that which 
remains must be rendered inert by proper 
antidotes. 



POISONS, 219 

Vomiting should be produced by the 
simplest means when they are sufficient, 
such as, tickling the throat with the 
finger, or with a feather, or by drinking 
luke-warm water, salt and water, or 
mustard and water, but when these means 
are insufficient we should at once resort 
to one of those emetics which is most 
powerful and speedy in its operations, as 
tarter emetic, sulphate of copper, or sul- 
phate of zinc. 

When vomiting has been excited it 
should be continued by copious draughts 
of warm water, or by tickling the throat 
with the finger, or a feather until the 
poisonous substances are rejected. In 
cases when vomiting can not be produced 
the stomach pump must be used by 
skilled hands, especially in arsenical, or 
narcotic poisons. 

When as much of the poison as possi- 
ble has been gotten rid of by vomiting 
the following antidotes will be found the 
most simple and reliable: acids are neu- 
tralized by alkalies, such as, very thick 
soap suds of soap and milk, chalk, soda, 
lime water, magnesia, or saleratus. In 
cases of poisoning from sulphuric acid do 



220 POISONS. 

not use soap suds, or lime water; for 
nitric, or oxalic acid use magnesia and 
lime; and for prussic acid use dilute 
ammonia and electricity. 

Alkalies are neutralized by acids, the 
vegetable acids, vinegar, or oils in large 
quantities. 

Opium and other narcotics are neu- 
tralized by strong coffee and frequent 
doses of aqua ammonia following and 
during frequent powerful emetics, and 
for the spasms of strychnia, use chloro- 
form or ether and electricity. Motion 
and heat must be maintained in poison- 
ings of this character. 

Arsenic is probably the most difficult 
poison to antidote successfully of any we 
have to contend with; THE HYDRATED 
PEROXID OF IRON in tablespoonful 
doses every ten minutes until relief is 
obtained is relied upon by the profes- 
sion of tener than any other treatment. 
This preparation as well as any others 
named under poisons can be procured at 
any druggist. 

Bismuth, copper and their compounds, 
mercury, tin, zinc and their salts, and 
creosote, use albumen in some form, as 



POISONS. 221 

the white of eggs, sweet milk, strong 
coffee and mucilaginous drinks. 

Lead and its salts, use epsom salts, 
glauber- salts, dilute sulphuric acid, or 
even lemonade in mild cases. 

Ioidine, use starch, wheat flower, or 
arrowroot beaten up in warm water. 

Gases, use dilute ammonia, electricity 
and friction. 

In poisoning from animals but little, 
or no benefit is- derived from vomiting, 
but we should at once resort to antidotes 
and often to the actual cautery. 

Bite of a rabid dog, the actual cautery 
should instantly be applied to the wound, 
and large doses of zinc, or muriate of 
iron given for several days. 

Sirpents stings, apply the actual cau- 
tery immediately and give sufficient 
whiskey, or brandy to produce intoxi- 
cation. 

Insect poison, apply ioidine, or harts- 
horn and oil to the part and give stimu- 
lants for a day or two. 

When imminent danger is passed, to 
prevent any sequally, and restore health 
and vigor to the stomach as well as the 
body generally, we give for a few days 



222 POISONS* 

prescription 'K' if the poisoning was f rom 
a mineral, prescription 'G\ if from a vege- 
table, or prescription 'D', if from the bite, 
or sting of an animal. Much assistance 
will be rendered by keeping the bowels 
open by taking a dose of pills from pre- 
scription 'A' every second day for two or 
three successive doses, 



DIRECTIONS. 

«A' 

These pills are taken from one to four 
for a dose according to age, or require- 
ment, and the full dose can be repeated 
every second day, for three successive 
doses when necessary. 

One or two pills are laxative; three 
strongly laxative; and four an active 
cathartic. This is a valuable liver, 
stomach and bowel medicine, and for 
headaches and other affections arising 
from a bilious state of the system. 

'B' 

In acute affections, drop eight drops in 
eight tablespoonfuls of water and take 
one tablespoonful every two hours. In 
chronic troubles, take three drops in a 
tablespoonful of water three times a 
day. 

This remedy is curative in headaches 
of a pressive, expansive, or bursting 
character; cough either dry, or with copi- 
ous expectoration and pain in the side cr 
sides; indigestion with inactive liver and 
bowels constipated; rheumatism. 



224 DIRECTIONS. 

Take one granule every two hours in 
acute disease, or three granules three 
times a day in chronic affections. 

This is a most excellent medicine for 
feeble and anaemic females, with thin 
almost transparent skin, suffering fr im 
leucorrhoea, or whites, and profuse debi- 
litating menstruation, also chlorosis in 
young girls. This is also a most valua- 
ble remedy with children suffering with 
summer complaint, worms, or almost any 
affections of the stomach and bowels. 

Mix eight drops in six teaspoonfuls of 
water, and take one teaspoonful every 
three hours. 

This remedy is a great curative agent 
in stomach troubles, dyspepsia, head- 
ache and constipation; in nervous 
affections, tetanus, epilepsy and general 
nervous irritability; in hemorrhoids, or 
piles, and other affections arising from 
high living, strong drink, or sedentary 
habits. 

4 E» 

Take from one to four pills for a dose. 
One to three will relieve pain, and from 



DIRECTIONS. 225 

two to four will produce sleep. Not more 
than six in any case should be taken in 
twenty-four hours. 

These pills, as their direction would 
indicate, are ancdynic in their action 
when enough of them have been taken. 
They should be used with care, but by 
following the direction, pain can be 
relieved and sleep produced with great 
benefit to the sufferer. 

'F' 

Mix fifteen drops in five tablespoonfuls 
of water, and take one teaspoonful 
every two hours in acute troubles. In 
chronic affections take five drops in a 
tablespoonf ul of water three times a day. 
This is the greatest of medicines in fever, 
inflammation, inflammatory rheumatism, 
neuralgia, heart disease, and, in fact, all 
affections attended with high fever, hot, 
dry skin, great thirst and rapid pulse, 
hence its importance at the beginning of 
almost all acute troubles. 

■c 

One-half teaspoonful to five table- 
spoonfuls of water, and take one 
teaspoonful every two hours in acute 
affections. In chronic disease take seven 



226 



DIRECTIONS, 



drops in a wine glass of water three 
times a day. 

This is also a valuable medicine in 
fevers, inflammation and congestions 
with determination of blood to the head, 
red face and throbing pulsations; throb- 
ing, beating headache, sore throat, dry 
tickling, spasmodic cough and pains 
rapidly changing position. This is also a 
very important remedy in female affec- 
tions attended with heaviness, pulling at 
the back with a sensation as if every- 
thing would be forced from them. 

In acute affections take three granules 
every three hours, and in chronic 
troubles take six granules three times a 
day. This is a great curative medicine 
in female affections; painful, scanty, or 
suppressed menstruation with impaired 
digestion; leucorrhoea, acrid, or like 
milk and painless. This is also a valu- 
able medicine in affections of the eyes, 
nose, ears or mouth, as also of the 
anus, stomach and bowel affections 
especiallv in children. 

l v 

One -half teaspoonful in four table- 
spoonfuls of water, and take one tea- 



DIRECTIONS, 227 

spoonful every three hours in acute 
affections. In chronic disease take four 
drops in a tablespoonful of water three 
times a day. This is a valuable remedy 
in low grades of fever, as in typhoid, or 
malarial, with marked periodicity. It is 
also a valuable medicine in chronic affec- 
tions of the kidnej^s and bladder. 

In acute affections, mix one-half tea- 
spoonful to five tablespoonfuls of water 
and take one teaspoonf ul every two hours, 
or eight drops in a wine glass of water 
three times a day in chronic cases. 

This medicine is largely used in all 
forms of heart disease, and in diseases 
of the circulation generally. 

'K' 

Mix one teaspoonful in a half glass of 
water, and take one tablespoonful every 
three hours in acute affections. Or, in 
chronic cases take a half teaspoonful in 
a wine glass of water, before each meal. 

This is probably the best stomach 
remedy known, and for almost all affec- 
tions arising from imperfect digestion and 
assimilation. It is a tonic to the entire 
system. 



228 DIRECTIONS. 

'L> 

Mix one tablespoonful in a half glass of 
water, and take a tablespoonful every 
three hours. For chills and fevers follow 
directions given in the book. 

This is a very valuable medicine, and 
will be found often indicated, and 
especially in all affections arising from 
malaria. In recent attacks of chills and 
fever it will cure almost without an 
exception. It is also a valuable medicine 
in asthma, gout, rheumatism, piles and 
in stomach, liver and bowels affections. 

< M ' 

Take a half teaspoonf ul in a wine glass 
of water, before each meal and when 
retiring. As an external application 
apply with a linen cloth from four to six 
times a day. 

This is a capital medicine in hemor- 
rhage from any orifice of the body, and 
for bleeding piles it has no equal. It is 
also a useful remedy in internal injuries 
arising from external violence, such as, a 
blow or fall. As an application for burns, 
or scalds it should always be at hand, as 
also for any surface affections. 



DIRECTIONS. 229 

'N' 

USED EXTERNALLY. 

Apply with a linen cloth from four to 
six times a day. For fresh and open 
wounds dilute with equal parts of water 
before applying. 

We might say, in a word, that this 
medicine is used locally with benefit for 
almost all forms of external affections, 
the medicine diluted, or left strong 
according to the irritability of the part it 
comes in contact. It is also often used 
with great relief for internal affections 
by being applied over the seat of the 
trouble. 

'c 

Take a half teaspoonful in a wine glass 
of water, four times a day. 

This is the most general useful medi- 
cine in chronic affections that is made use 
of. For the skin, -glands, affections and 
discharges of the eyes, nose, ears, anus, 
and in all forms of scrofula, it is certainly 
without an equal. It is also a useful 
medicine in stomach and bowel affec- 
tions, chronic diarrrhea, piles, or fistula, 
also for summer complaint, worms and 
bowel affections in children. 



230 DIRECTIONS. 

N In acute affections take two granules 
every two hours, or six granules three 
times a day in chronic troubles. This is 
a most excellent medicine in affections of 
children, croup, colds stomach affections, 
dysentery, diarrhea, summer complaint 
and especially where there is much nau- 
sea and vomiting. It is also an excellent 
medicine in dysentery and diarrhea in 
adults. 



Accompanying the directions we have 
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employment of each prescription, but to 
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